NickMDal

Hello. Thank you for providing this information. I managed to recover one of the Symantec backup images using easeus restoration software. It was eye-opening to try to use the Symantec system recovery CD. They have a "recover anywhere" option that I was unable to install a single driver with. Thankfully, your last post had all of the information that was needed. I booted the recovered partition into safe mode and did battle with SBS and the hardware manufacturer CDs for hours. My only weapon was a priceless information you provided in the last post, which is the reason that our SBS installation is now fully restored and performing drastically better than ever. You guys are doing truly great work! I feel like an undeserving recipient and am immeasurably grateful for your help and good nature. You should know that you were a key factor in keeping our server installation alive. The MS Access hub replica that I use for my practice runs on this server. While the installation is primarily a home one, I operate an office-less single provider diagnostics service that must access the server. Since Microsoft dropped support for Access replication, I've become entirely dependent on our current server installation. David Fenton, Microsoft's replication guru set up my replication scheme and sadly died a year and a half ago. All would have been lost without recovery to new hardware. How can I thank you for what you did? One thing is certain, I will never forget this fortunate encounter.

Hi, Working on this now. There are lots of SourceDiskName sections in the inf's, one for each language. They alternate with ServiceName sections, which I am leaving. The ALC899 link (step2) is not working from here. I get the "I accept" and then click next but it cycles back. Search for ALC899 only returns the datasheet. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Sorry for the delay. The vid card is built in to the board. Just using vga port. CPU is AMD A4 3400. No to sound card, yes to lan. The board is Gigabyte A75M-D2H. One temporary device is SIIG SATA 6 gb/s 2S1P PCIe card to allow IDE drives during install. The site link for drivers is here: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3930#dl There are so many drivers on the cd. How do you figure out which are needed? I installed and ran Agent Ransack since it searches very well. The device id's listed in Symantec System Recovery "Recover Anywhere" cd didn't seem to match any drivers on the cd. I did text string searches. Thanks so much for helping put this together. It will really get me out of a huge bind. Nick

I completely understand this. Our installation is at home and I am not an IT person. I have a Time Warner residential connection now. We do some "work" type work at home but mostly it is just to manage our home network. Is that ok?

Yes this would be great! Today I am first trying to recover the accidentally deleted partition. If it fails, you will save our installation by doing this. Will update later today

Just at setup. Slow here not being an IT person. I just used the floppy at F6. Previously I integrated using the wizard, not the manual approach you suggested. That did not work. After using the floppy approach, the SBS routine is blue screened during installation of the first OS cd. I thought it was using raid properly since it managed to install many files. Can you say if that is the case? Using your procedure to integrate drivers will take many hours since the mobo cd has gillions of folders and files. Well, I just counted and found 433 inf files. Manually picking out the list for XP files would in itself be a job. The driver download from gigabyte is only an executable that builds the entire folder tree. Do you know which particular driver types MUST be preinstalled? I imagine some do not impact install and so I can always use the install cd from SBS desktop if I can get there.

Thanks again. Everything's changed now. Just accidentally deleted the partition on the backup drive so now its a fresh SBS 03 install. That isn't too much of a disaster since the old was plagued by corrupt files. Critical items are backed elsewhere. The raid situation is straightened out. Picked up a usb floppy and SBS install cd works with it perfectly. My problem now is that SBS will need all of the xp drivers on the Gigabyte CD. Is it a complex process to configure the nLite ISO to contain all of the motherboard drivers? Your help is very appreciated. Nick

It is used at home for a home based network. We were trying to convert from static IP to dynamic when the sata controller on the old Abit Mobo failed. (1) Using 2 drives as RAID 0 on new board. Those drives are new. (2) I am using a backup of the existing install. We have to do this. Symantec System Recovery 2011 image file. SBS setup disc is very similar to XP. Our backup install used xp RAID drivers. Microsoft support somehow just corrupted the old installation when trying to remove ISA 2004 - I paid them $280 for this incident! So I am trying to restore an image backup using Symantec System Restore 2011. That cannot access the RAID driver. Next tried to create a partition using SBS setup disc (modified with NLite). The RAID driver path on the cd is attached. I used the NLite driver utility to add single file and then driver folder.

Thanks for your help. I've attached the driver file from the install cd. Here is the link to the MB manufacturer driver page: You have to select the OS, which is Windows Server 2003. We are running Small Bus. Server 2003. Note the SBS 03 install we are trying to recover used xp drivers for same RAID type (different manufacturer) without a problem. http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3930&dl=1#dl x86.rar

Trying to recover an SBS 2003 installation from a failed motherboard. New mobo is Gigabyte GA-A75M-DH2 (Chipset is AMD A75) Symantec Backup Exec Recovery does not seem able to load a raid driver for this board by its "recover anywhere" method. NLite seems like a great alternative. When the NLite created SBS install cd is run (with RAID driver), SBS installer does not recognize the AMD raid array. I skipped the F6 step. I created the array using the boards built-in utility. Then added a single RAID driver through the NLite wizard, which was the x86 RAID driver for XP. No luck though. Should work with this hardware?