change hardware, change driver

Question

hello all,
we plan to change our 2012R2 hardware, but new hardware has other smartarray driver. How can we solve this problem.

Answer 1

Hi,

As all drivers located in C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository. It is a trusted location of inbox and third-party driver packages. This means that before a driver can be installed it must first be injected into the driver store, this process is called staging.

Try to download your driver into that driver store, and check the issue again.

Here is another measure to inject driver into an offline system image file with DISM command line, try to check if it works for you.

Add and Remove Drivers to an offline Windows Image

Bests,

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Answer 2

Sounds like you'll be clean installing the operating system. If the disk controller driver is not recognized during install you download from the manufacturer and present it here.

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Answer 3

sorry, but now we don't use install, because we have oracle and may programms on old server. We use the drives with server 2012r2 from old server und plug into new serverhardware.

Answer 4

Sounds risky, something here may help.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/how-to-restore-windows-installation

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Answer 5

Hi,

What hardware do you want to replace?

If you want to change mainly hardware, I would recommend to reinstall system in case of system corruption or hardware compatibility issue occur.

I would recommend to use Windows Server Backup Feature to backup your data, application and server state and so on, then recovery them once you build your device with new hardware.

By the way, some hardware changes such as motherboard will lost activation, please make sure you could find product key if you are using OEM license or retailed.

Bests,

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