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Scenario:

You have single or multiple drives using your motherboard IDE, SATA or internal software RAID and want to add a RAID controller to your system.
Your drives are connected to a RAID controller. You are either trying to use a different card or give it up for an onboard controller.

but you rather keep your current OS installation, applications and files. You require no new OS installtion. All you have to do is to connect the RAID controller to your motherboard and power up the system, install the drivers and introduce it to your OS and restart. Once the card is visible to the OS simply image your current operating system, create your RAID arrays and restore the image to the active partition of your array. You can now boot from the new controller without having to do anything else.

I tested this once with Ubuntu and it didn’t work. Not sure about different distributions, though.

I got around it by creating a new administrator account. Log on/off the new admin account and try the install task again.

Start – Run – paste the following line there and hit OK:

%systemroot%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

This should bring up the hidden uninstaller.

Well… all these years of development and Microsoft still can’t get the installation part right. Not too surprising… huh?

If you have a storage controller or using motherboard RAID, it’s quite possible that you see this error message after loading the drivers. This could happen on systems with a single CD drive and It’s also likely to happen if you are installing storage drivers from a USB flash drive.

If your driver CD is still in the drive (or USB drive) and Windows CD out on your desk, you won’t be notified properly. Instead, you will see the above error message which was very frustrating in my case. Remember to replace the driver CD with Windows, wait until you hear it spin and then you will notice the Next button is no longer grayed out. It is not safe to assume that Windows would give you a hint. I wonder how much the missing error message was going to cost Microsoft that they decided not to add it.

Frustrating… very unprofessional of Microsoft to say the least.

I found this purdy tool from Microshaft website, and it actually works pretty nice. It’s called Print Migrator which will allow you to save all your printers, along with their IP info AND drivers to a cab file, and then restore to a new server. Usually it takes me an hour or two to do 20 printers – this time it took me just a minute!