I wanted to use Symantec System Recovery to backup around 160 Dell desktop clients, which are different hardware types (various Optiplex and Precision). When trying to restore an image to another hardware configuration many devices were unrecognized in the device manager. Reading the documentation confused me a little; it was about the 32 and 64 Bit thing: Including the most necessary drivers (like NIC, Memory controller or chipset) to the PE to get it working (in 32-Bit) was not really comfortable (handing over each single .inf needed) but did the job for me.
Now I was asking myself how to include 64 Bit drivers for restoring Windows 7 and is there any possibility to avoid adding every single .inf, like a folder "Drivers" on the disk where you can easily add whole driver folders (like Intel chipset or NIC)??
Now I was asking myself how to include 64 Bit drivers for restoring Windows 7 and is there any possibility to avoid adding every single .inf, like a folder "Drivers" on the disk where you can easily add whole driver folders (like Intel chipset or NIC)??
Sounds like you are asking for a 'bulk' upload method? Unfortunately drivers must be added one at a time.
However, only 32bit drivers will work when you are trying to get hardware to work in the recovery environment before running a backup/restore.
64bit drivers are only used when doing a restore anyware (i.e. if restoring a 64bit operating system, the restore process will look into the database on the recovery disk for drivers for the hardware that you are restoring to).
