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It'll be worthless unless the new drive has netscaler code on it already, or unless you clone existing HD to new one. You'll also likely have licensing hoops to jump through depending on firmware revision, generally need at least some kind of platform license

I wasn't sure if that would be the case. This model does have a separate flash drive for the /flash mountpoint. Seems like it boots to a degree without the /var mountpoint. We might try cloning the old drive with a few bad sectors and see what happens.

Oh geez I forgot that the 7500s still had CF cards... it's been a while. Without a healthy /var I believe you'll get the freeBSD portion to boot but basically everything will be real angry. You might be able to frankenstein something together by pulling files from a VPX or other device running the same build as long as you use the expected partition layout but it's not something I've done before.