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Adaptec Raid Controller driver not loading

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Hi,

Recently my Intel raid controller card stopped working and I had 6 HDD all RAID 1 configured and mirrored each drive. My server was running Windows 2003 c: and SQL SERVER on d: and left e: for other stuff.

I took each drive back up through Acronis 11.5 individually by connecting them on other machine as external and verified the images by deploying them on dummy machine.

Now, I deployed ADAPTEC raid controller 5085z to my server and created same raid configuration. When I try to restore the backups through acronis bootable media I can't upload drivers of Adaptec raid controller 5085z. Whenever I try to give it a path to load driver it shows the command prompt window opening driverload.exe file but nothing happen after this.

The driver I am trying to load is of windows server 2003 32bit.

Can anyone tell what can the possible way out to this?

Thanks

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Hello Shawn,

please make sure that you follow the steps described in this article and that the driver is unpacked and has *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extension.

If it doesn't help, please let me know on which stage you face difficulties.

Thank you.