Completely remove any trace of a driver?

snagrat · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:28

We are having problems repairing Windows after ghosting one model of machine to another.

I have ghosted hundreds of machines and had to repair windows as a driver has caused it not to start properly. Takes a while but works everything.

Or I thought it did. Recently when we ghost machines and start to reapir windows it keeps crashing and looping around. It copies the files and then restarts to start the full installation it blue screens very quickly and crashes.

We have come to the conclusion that it is a driver problem .We think it is SIS related but aren't 00% sure.

What I want to know (and I hope someone can tell me) is whether there is a way to remove the driver 100% and see if that makes a different. I have tried uninstalling them all and rebooting then ghosting but still crashes. I want to uninstall, remove any files and reg keys before I ghost and see what happens.

Thanks for any suggestion

VaderDSL · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:33

You could try downloading Driver Cleaner Pro - it has a lot of different options to completely remove various drivers from ATI, Nvidia, Creative, SIS etc.

marc2003 · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:45

if you're ghosting on a regular basis, take a look at using sysprep. this supposedly removes all hardware specific information from the pc. you then shut down and ghost the disk. when you startup the cloned machine, it's all ready to detect new hardware from scratch....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302577&sd=tech
http://service4.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000081610075225?OpenDocument

snagrat · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:47

VaderDSL said:
You could try downloading Driver Cleaner Pro - it has a lot of different options to completely remove various drivers from ATI, Nvidia, Creative, SIS etc.

I'll give it a go. Cheers

snagrat · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:48

marc2003 said:
if you're ghosting on a regular basis, take a look at using sysprep. this supposedly removes all hardware specific information from the pc. you then shut down and ghost the disk. when you startup the cloned machine, it's all ready to detect new hardware from scratch....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302577&sd=tech
http://service4.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000081610075225?OpenDocument

We use it currently so when we ghost down to the clients it asks us for the machine name and adds it to the doamin etc for us.

Never thought about it removing the drivers. I will have a lookie at that

Thanks

VaderDSL · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:56

wow that sysprep is an awesome idea!!! never heard of it before, think I'll have to use that to make a default ghost image that isnt hardware dependant