Hello,
After running my WHS for about five years, I recently had an incident requiring a full restore and found that it was impossible to do with my system. I have a year old motherboard with on board LAN and no drivers for 32 bit Vista. I tried X-files with no luck. Thinking that I might eventually need to migrate to WHS 2011, I even downloaded the WHS 2011 restore cd and tried that with a USB stick with my LAN drivers downloaded from the MB manufacturer and that failed too. There seems to be no way to load drivers that work with the on board LAN.
Thankfully I had a few months old Reflect image that I restored and then mounted my WHS backup and copied what I really needed.
So my question is can anyone recommend an older USB to LAN device, which works with WHS v1 restore? If not that, then an older NIC? The USB would be preferable since I am pretty much out of slots on my MB - I could swap in an emergency, but the USB solution would be cleaner. Thanks for your help.