install raid controller driver with rundll32 from inf file

[skyliner]

I recently bought a raid controller card and set up a 3 disk raid5 raid.
Before that, I made a clone image of my windows partition. Once the raid was set up I copied the image to my new raid drive.

Everything went well, except that now windows7 refuses to boot, throwing me an exception error in a quick flashy blue screen of death. Silly me I forgot about installing the raid drivers before doing the OS image. Well too late now.

Using the windows 7 installation disk I can boot into a recovery console (not before loading the raid drivers, so the install setup can access the installed OS) I believe it should be possible to install the raid controller driver from there, using rundll32.

Using the web I found solutions like

 RUNDLL32.EXE SETUPAPI.DLL,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 path-to-inf\infname.inf"

but that and similar commands, give me an "installation failed" error.
Which I believe might be related to the use of the InstallHinfSection function and or defaultInstall, a section which my .inf file lacks.

The driver comes with the .inf file, a .cat file with the driver signatures and a .sys file.

here's the contents of the inf.

;  
; 2310_00.INF 
;  
 
[Version] 
signature="$Windows NT$" 
Class=SCSIAdapter 
ClassGUID={4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} 
Provider=%HIGHPOINT% 
CatalogFile= 2310_00.CAT 
DriverVer=06/11/2009, 2.3.9.611 
 
[DestinationDirs] 
DefaultDestDir  = 12 ; DIRID_DRIVERS 
 
[ControlFlags] 
; ExcludeFromSelect = * 
 
[Manufacturer] 
%HIGHPOINT%=HighPoint, NTamd64 
 
[HighPoint.NTamd64] 
%RR2310.DeviceDesc%=hptmvPCI,PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_2310 
%RR2300.DeviceDesc%=hptmvPCI,PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_2300 
%RR2310.DeviceDesc%=hptmvPCI,PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_7042 
%SCSI\ProcessorHPT_____RCM_DEVICE______.DeviceDesc% = NODRV, SCSI\ProcessorHPT_____RCM_DEVICE______ 
 
[NODRV] 
AddReg=NODRV_AddReg 
 
[NODRV.Services] 
AddService = , %SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE%   ; null service install 
 
[hptmvPCI.NTamd64] 
CopyFiles=@2310_00.sys 
;[email protected] 
Reboot 
 
[hptmvPCI.NTamd64.Services] 
AddService = 2310_00, %SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE%, hptmvPCI_Service_Inst, Miniport_EventLog_Inst 
;AddService = hptpro,,Hptpro_Service_Inst 
 
[hptmvPCI_Service_Inst] 
ServiceType    = %SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER% 
StartType      = %SERVICE_BOOT_START% 
ErrorControl   = %SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL% 
ServiceBinary  = %12%\2310_00.sys 
LoadOrderGroup = SCSI Miniport 
AddReg         = pnpsafe_pci_addreg 
 
[Hptpro_Service_Inst] 
ServiceType    = 1 
StartType      = 0 
ErrorControl   = 1 
;ServiceBinary  = %12%\hptpro.sys 
LoadOrderGroup = Filter 
 
[pnpsafe_pci_addreg] 
HKR, "Parameters\PnpInterface", "5", 0x00010001, 0x00000001 
HKR, "Parameters\Device", "NumberOfRequests", 0x00010001, 0x3c 
 
[Miniport_EventLog_Inst] 
AddReg = Miniport_EventLog_AddReg 
 
[Miniport_EventLog_AddReg] 
HKR,,EventMessageFile,%REG_EXPAND_SZ%,"%%SystemRoot%%\System32\IoLogMsg.dll" 
HKR,,TypesSupported,%REG_DWORD%,7 
 
[SourceDisksNames] 
1 = %InstallDisk%,,,, 
 
[SourceDisksFiles] 
;;2310_00.inf = 1,, 
2310_00.sys = 1,, 
 
 
[NODRV_AddReg] 
;Dummy AddReg section  
 
[strings] 
HighPoint="HighPoint" 
RR2310.DeviceDesc="RocketRAID 231x SATA Controller" 
RR2300.DeviceDesc="RocketRAID 230x SATA Controller" 
SCSI\ProcessorHPT_____RCM_DEVICE______.DeviceDesc = "HighPoint RCM Device" 
InstallDisk = "RocketRAID 231x/230x SATA Controller Driver Diskette" 
 
;******************************************* 
;Handy macro substitutions (non-localizable) 
SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE = 0x00000002 
SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER  = 1 
SERVICE_BOOT_START     = 0 
SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL   = 1 
REG_EXPAND_SZ          = 0x00020000 
REG_DWORD              = 0x00010001

I tried in vain manually copying the .sys file to system32/drivers/ and editing the registry with an external editor but I don't understand all the registry strings the inf is trying to add.

Is it possible to successfully install the driver under these circumstances ? I'm open to try any method, I just want to avoid having to reinstall windows.

Thanks.

[skyliner]

Never mind. I ended up separating one of the drives from the array, restoring the OS image into the drive and booting into windows to install the raid controller drivers. After which I made a new OS image, rejoined the drive to the array and copied over the new OS image (with the raid drivers).
A fool's solution but it was quicker and less frustrating than perusing the obscure windows library documentation.