Acronis Universal Restore USER GUIDE
Table of contents 2 1 What is Acronis Universal Restore ....................................................................................3 2 Installing Acronis Universal Restore ..................................................................................3 3 Creating bootable media ..................................................................................................3 4 Using Acronis Universal Restore ..............................................................................
1 What is Acronis Universal Restore The Acronis Universal Restore tool is designed to help boot an operating system on a physical or a virtual machine. The tool finds and installs drivers for devices that are critical for the operating system start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard, or chipset. Universal Restore is extremely useful in the following scenarios: 1. Instant recovery of a failed system on different hardware. 2. Hardware-independent cloning and deployment of operating systems. 3.
.1 Universal Restore in Windows Preparation Prepare drivers Before applying Universal Restore to a Windows operating system, make sure that you have the drivers for the new HDD controller and the chipset. These drivers are critical to start the operating system. Use the CD or DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor’s website. The driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. If you download the drivers in the *.exe, *.cab or *.
Specify the appropriate drivers by clicking Add driver. The drivers defined here will be installed, with appropriate warnings, even if the program finds a better driver. Universal Restore process After you have specified the required settings, click OK. If Universal Restore cannot find a compatible driver in the specified locations, it will display a prompt about the problem device. Do one of the following: Add the driver to any of the previously specified locations and click Retry.
