On 1/21/2010 9:58 AM, Raymond Norton wrote: > I have a customer with a laptop that has died, but the sata hard drive > is fine. We do not have another laptop with a sata controller at the > moment. I am trying to get him back up and running as quickly as > possible, and buy him sometime to pick up another laptop. Before the > laptop died completely, I made an image of the drive and copied it to > another sata drive. I then ran sysprep on it, and popped it in a little > mini-atx box. It boots up to a desktop, but does not have the drivers to > see the USB ports (keyboard and mouse), or the nic. Is there a way to > boot to a LIVECD, and copy the drivers to the Windows system folder, so > on the next reboot it will see the hardware on the box? > This made me shudder. I'm not sure of an easy way to inject drivers into an offline image using Linux. You have a couple of options as I see it, hopefully others will chime in. 1) Run a soft reinstall of the MS OS. 2) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766141%28WS.10%29.aspx 3) You could try copying the INF file(s) for your drivers to %SystemRoot%\inf and the driver files (*.sys) to %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\* - You can do this from the LiveCD + Pendrive. 4) If possible, see if he is interested in Linux ;-) -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments