Universal Restore with PlusPack and WinPE 2.0
I have read Gary Darsey’s excellent tutorial (in the ‘sticky’ above - dated 2010-03-21) which aimed to cover the burning of a Win PE2.0 environment with the TI 2010 plug-in using the PlusPack ISO builder. Since it did not specifically cover using the Universal Restore part of the TI plug-in, I have one uncertainty about the source of drivers which get ‘injected’ into the restored Win image by Universal Restore.
In the acronis-universal-restore1.pdf document Gary kindly referred us to, which presumably is talking about restoring using Acronis’s usual Linux environment, Universal Restore appears to pick up Win drivers from a Windows drivers folder within Linux.
But could someone kindly explain what happens when WinPE is used instead of Linux: is there a separate Windows drivers folder or does Universal Restore use the same drivers folder as WinPE; i.e. are the drivers within the Windows version which makes up that particular WinPE the same drivers which are picked up by Universal Restore to inject into the Windows system TI is busy restoring?

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Thanks Thomas
Re your comment “You can also perform a Universal Restore using the Linux based recovery disk. It will use the same drivers that are built into Windows”, it raises the question of where these drivers themselves come from. Are they
a. bundled with Acronis TI, or
b. abstracted from the host Windows system when the rescue disk is created
I assume these drivers are totally different from those used by the Linux restore system itself (because the latter are in Linux and not Windows format).
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Max-
You have to supply the drivers yourself, for the target hardware. UR supplies the mechanism for accessing and injecting these drivers upon restoring to the new hardware. You have to get the MB chipset drivers, etc., from the respective manufacturers. They have nothing to do with Linux, WinPE, or any other operating environment. This is discussed in the resources mentioned above.
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When I did my restore to a new mother board TI used the drivers that built in to Windows. In my case I did not need the MB chip set drivers because they were already included in Windows 7.
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