These drivers are critical to start the operating system. video and sound card drivers, plug and play drivers) are not installed by Acronis Universal Restore, as they can be installed in Windows after the successful migration.īefore applying Universal Restore to a Windows operating system, make sure that you have the drivers for the new HDD controller and the chipset.

If there are proper NIC drivers present in the folder with the drivers, Acronis Universal Restore will copy them into the restored system and will schedule their installation on Windows boot-up. hard drive or RAID controller drivers) into the system during the recovery process, so that the operating system can boot from this boot device.

Now you can start the computer and work with your system restored to the new hardware.Īcronis Universal Restore is a tool that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and install mass storage boot device drivers into the system.

After recovery, start your new computer once again and use Universal Restore to make the restored system bootable on the new hardware.

Connect Acronis Bootable Media to your computer and restart the computer.

You need this media to restore from your backup and apply Universal Restore afterwards to make your old system bootable on new hardware.

Create Acronis Bootable Media with Acronis Universal Restore Tool.

Validate the backup you want to restore from.

Restore to dissimilar hardware procedure overview:

This may be useful, for example, after replacing a failed motherboard or when deciding to migrate the system from one computer to another. Restoring to dissimilar hardware is not available on Mac (neither for OS X, nor for the Bootcamp partition).Īcronis Universal Restore is a free tool available for Acronis customers, which allows you to make the old system bootable on new hardware.

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