My wife's XP Boot Camp partition on her MacBook died yesterday and I can't for the life of me get the restore cd to work. No matter what I've tried, the restore cd will not find the ethernet driver (yes, I downloaded the latest restore cd). I've tried downloading the drivers from the WHS backup, from the OSX install cd (viewing the cd in Windows gives you the drivers), and from Intel's website. I ran across another post that suggested using a Vista driver even though I'm running XP since the restore cd is a trimmed down Vista, so that's the version I grabbed from Intel. Each time I put the driver on a USB drive. The drive lights up to indicate that it is working, but restore just won't find the driver. It finds the wireless one okay, but that's apparently no good for a system restore according to the WHS backup tech letter.
My bad for not doing a trial restore a lot earlier. Lesson learned (and about 6 hours wasted so far). I've given up for now and am reinstalling XP from scratch and I'll pull individual files from the WHS backup. Now I want to make sure I'm set for future problems and can actually do a full system restore. Where do I go from here? Can I do a system restore after I get XP up and running again like I used to do with the built in XP backup program?
