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If you're making a backup for different hardware, generally you might want to use different images for different HALs. That is, you might take an image for ACPI and another for multiprocessor machine.

If you want to remove the particular HAL from the system you indicated with devcon, you would type this at a command prompt:

devcon.exe remove acpi_hal*

However, this does not remove files, only registry entries etc. Upon next boot, the same HAL as before will be used by the system. Just a pnp device reconfiguration is performed at first boot, but you'll notice that the same HAL is configured in Device Manager.

Which means all of this is basically useless. Either take an image of systems with different HALs set, or use OfflineSysPrep or MySysprep to detect and set HAL at first boot.

Regards,
Galapo.