Over this weekend I did a p2v of an HP BL460c (g1) server running Windows 2003 64bit. The physical box has the HP insight and management agents and according software. After the P2V it still had the NC373i multifunction drivers hidden. I ran the devmgt hidden =1 command but they did now show up hidden in the device manager. I then downloaded the devcon tool and they are there displayed when i run the list all command. When i run the command to have devcon remove them it says failed. I do not want these drivers on there and these drivers retain my old ip address info on there, so when i change the virtual nic address, it says they are still being used by another device driver. Ideally i want to remove these as i want to make sure that this won't cause an issue down the road.

I didn't put that VM into production as there was other hp software on there and i ran out of time, i had to get the physcial box back into production. This coming weekend i'm planning on putting a new p2v vm into production of this server. I was going to remove the drivers ahead of time before the conversion but if i remove the NIC drivers how can i get the vm to my esx hosts? the simpliest solution would be to just remove the drivers after the p2v.

has anyone run into this problem with these drivers? they are 64 bit? any help at all or direction would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advanced!