Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Remove unattached Hardware from VMWare clone

Having done a clone of our BlackBerry server and settings it up in VMWare we came across an oddity. Our network card was complaining about setting its IP address to the same as one already set but we were only using one of the cards.

VMWare was imaged as usual using BartPE and Ghost but in doing so we had taken over the old hardware configuration which as we were on Win2k3 meant we couldn't see it in device manager or remove it using add-remove hardware in control panel.

Apparently we needed to make these available so from the command prompt:

SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
followed by:
DEVMGMT.MSC

Please note running device manager from outside the window will mean its not using the variable you just set and nothing will work as stated.

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