Benjamin297
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List device drivers for Windows XP
Hello.
I have created a Norton Ghost image of a VMWare virtual machine in Windows. This ghost image needs to be reinstalled onto the physical machine of a computer. The process of doing this is fine, however I am having problems as the virtual machine drivers do not migrate fully. Basically what I want is a free way to list ALL of the drivers installed on a machine in a list.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Ben.
I have created a Norton Ghost image of a VMWare virtual machine in Windows. This ghost image needs to be reinstalled onto the physical machine of a computer. The process of doing this is fine, however I am having problems as the virtual machine drivers do not migrate fully. Basically what I want is a free way to list ALL of the drivers installed on a machine in a list.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Ben.
Hi Ben,
You can give this site a try: http://drivermagic.com/p/nph-welcome.php
Several folks here use it.
Vic
You can give this site a try: http://drivermagic.com/p/nph-welcome.php
Several folks here use it.
Vic
Basically, Drivers are the sets of instructions that tell something (a printer for instance) exactly how to function within the OS.
The software I posted will give you a current list of drivers installed on your machine. After you get the list, and if you do not understand what one of them does you can Google it and get all of the information you need.
ASKER
In relation to drivers would this tool or any other tool get me the GUID class for the driver. According to a ghost tutorial I need a GUID for each hardware device on the virtual machine.
ASKER
According to the tutorial this information could be found in the Windows registry, but it would be time consuming to grab this data for each driver myself?
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See if driverquery (in command prompt) will do what you want. /? will provide the syntax.
ASKER
Double driver is a good tool, just need to check it gives me the information I need, this GUID is important to the virtual to physical migration.
Okay, let us know.
Hey,
Another one you could try is the driver guide toolkit which captures all of the drivers and allows you to put them back in after a format. check it out http://www.driverguidetoolkit.com/
Only limitation is its a time limited trial but you should only really need it once.
Cheers,
Another one you could try is the driver guide toolkit which captures all of the drivers and allows you to put them back in after a format. check it out http://www.driverguidetoolkit.com/
Only limitation is its a time limited trial but you should only really need it once.
Cheers,
I'm not sure if I got the problem correctly:
You have a vmware virtual machine running in an image file, now you want to move that to a real PC and not run it inside a virtual machine?
If so, a virtual machine doesn't use real drivers, it only runs some dummy drivers that emulate the real ones. These "dummy" drivers then talk to the real drivers installed on the hosting OS. So if you move from a virtual machine to a real PC you will have to install the real drivers and forget those that had been used by the VM. The easiest way would be to get the drivers CD that came with that PC or mainboard, and install them once you have moved to that PC. Also get extra drivers for any extra hardware you have on that PC as required.
As has been mentioned above, drivers are required for the OS to talk to the hardware of the PC.
You have a vmware virtual machine running in an image file, now you want to move that to a real PC and not run it inside a virtual machine?
If so, a virtual machine doesn't use real drivers, it only runs some dummy drivers that emulate the real ones. These "dummy" drivers then talk to the real drivers installed on the hosting OS. So if you move from a virtual machine to a real PC you will have to install the real drivers and forget those that had been used by the VM. The easiest way would be to get the drivers CD that came with that PC or mainboard, and install them once you have moved to that PC. Also get extra drivers for any extra hardware you have on that PC as required.
As has been mentioned above, drivers are required for the OS to talk to the hardware of the PC.
Here is a simple tool that does reporting in on XP:
This tool is a timesaver to compare settings issue across many platform with complete reports from a
http://www.gtopala.com/
Here is how your driver list will display.....
http://www.gtopala.com/siw_software_drivers.html
Note : Ghost image basic .... Never take a snap of a VMWare session. your image will contain drivers that will never be used by a real Hardware.
If your goal is a singal images multiple HW platforms .. use Sysprep to add additional drivers... Your image should be similar HAL type or UNI- ACPI.
Carefull with you Mass storage driver in VM you are simulating IDE .. NEW system are SATA and have a variety of ICHchipsets..
I hope this help you.
This tool is a timesaver to compare settings issue across many platform with complete reports from a
http://www.gtopala.com/
Here is how your driver list will display.....
http://www.gtopala.com/siw_software_drivers.html
Note : Ghost image basic .... Never take a snap of a VMWare session. your image will contain drivers that will never be used by a real Hardware.
If your goal is a singal images multiple HW platforms .. use Sysprep to add additional drivers... Your image should be similar HAL type or UNI- ACPI.
Carefull with you Mass storage driver in VM you are simulating IDE .. NEW system are SATA and have a variety of ICHchipsets..
I hope this help you.
ASKER
Thanks.