The original instructions from ‘theindian’ have been modified/cleaned up a bit by me but are at their core from ‘theindian’ and I’m grateful to him for posting them and give him full credit.

My installation my configuration varies a bit and is on an AMD Athelon 64 X2 Dual
Core 4200 Asus M2N32-SLI Delux based home built system running Windows 7 Ulitmate 64 Bit with an Adaptec Ultra 160 29160 SCSI adapter and an HP SureStore DAT40 DDS4 dat drive and used VMWare WorkStation 7.1 .

The driver for Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008R2) u160_w7_ws08r2_x64_drv_b7_5_645_100.exe, can be downloaded
from Adaptec at http://www.adaptec.com.au/en-US/speed/scsi/windows/u160_w7_ws08r2_x64_drv_b7_5_645_100_exe.htm if needed.

The following are the slightly modified instructions that worked well for me:

My Setup (‘theindian’):
- Windows 7 Ultimate English 64Bit

- SCSI AHA-2940U2W (for any others readers: Yes, Yes, Yes, I was able to have my old 2940U2W
functional in Windows 7-64Bit. I signed the aic78u2.sys from Win2003-RC2-64 driver with my own test Certificate and I used djsvs.inf (renamed in aic78u2.inf) from Vista-64 with some modif for installation to be able to load in Windows 7 in TestMode but not very elegant. Re.: Windows 7 must be configured in Test Mode to load a driver with a test certificate but need to live with a watermark or hack your Windows 7 to have ModeTest watermark disappear. I’m waiting for an used Adaptec 29160 bought on Ebay where
supported in Windows 7 by Adaptec drivers and compatible with a 32Bits PCI slot )

- DLT-8000 with 64Bits driver downloaded from Quantum

- I used VMWare WorkStation 7 (or 7.1 my config)

- SCSI and Tape drive MUST be present and working in Device manager of the Windows 7 before continuing.

In VMware:
- Install a Guest Windows XP or directly import your old Physical XP in VM (File, Import or Export and follow instructions), you will virtualized your physical to virtual (P2V)

Note: I got the following error trying to start the VM after installing ‘The VMware Authorization Service is not running’, this was resolved by right clicking on the ‘VMWare Workstation’ icon and selecting ‘Run as Administrator’

- When install completes, shutdown your Guest XP

- In VMWare, select your XP Virtual Machine, then in VMWare menu, select VM, Settings…, Add, Select ‘Generic SCSI Device’, then if everything is Ok, you supposed to see TAPE0 in list, check the ‘Connect at power on’ box, then finish.

- When you are then returned to ‘Virtual Machine Settings’, keep the default ‘Connnection’ you’ll see on the right side in ‘Virtual device node’ list

- While still on the ‘Virtual Machine Settings’config window, go to the ‘Options’ tab, and select the ‘Shared Folders’ option on the left, then select the radio button next to ‘Always enabled’ and share your host drive (Ex.: c:\) or dir as you want by clicking the ‘Add’ button on the bottom of the left side. Make sure the ‘Read Only’ option is not Checked if you want restore!

- Check the ‘Map as a network drive in Windows guests’ box. Because NTBackup is not able to backup a VMWARE share drive but will use the network share OK!!!

- Click the ‘OK’ button at the bottom of ‘Virtual Machine Settings’ to save your changes.

- Boot your Guest XP

- In my case, VM was mapped my host share to Z:\ in Windows Explorer under “Shared Folders on ‘vmware-host’” on my Guest XP VM

- You’ll see your tape drive in device manager and in RSM of your Guest XP

- Use NTBackup as you would before on any Windows XP PC! Or your old backup software from your Old XP. You can find the Windows XP backup program under ‘C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\System Tools’. Just insert your tape, run NTBackup, catalog your tape if needed and go.

- I’m very surprise by the performance (of my elephant) with one 1Go on my Hosts! I’m hurry to receive my 29160 and move this setup to my I7.

Hope this helps others as it did me.

Steve