Completely remove any trace of a driver?

snagrat

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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
 
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
Click to expand...

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
 
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