Acronis Universal Boot USER GUIDE
Table of contents 2 1 What is Acronis Universal Boot ........................................................................................3 2 Installing Acronis Universal Boot ......................................................................................3 3 Creating bootable media ..................................................................................................3 4 Using Acronis Universal Boot................................................................................
1 What is Acronis Universal Boot The Acronis Universal Boot 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 Boot 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 Boot in Windows Preparation Prepare drivers Before applying Universal Boot 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 Boot process After you have specified the required settings, click OK. If Universal Boot 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.
