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Drivers for Universal Restore

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Hello,
In previous discussions, I saw that drivers from the vendor's site should be downloaded to make UR work.
If I just download the chipset driver, will it be enough to boot a UR reinstallation?
Thank you.

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Hi Babac!

In case there is no other dissimilar hardware except motherboard, than sure it will be enough and nothing else is need. Just don't forget to extract it to be in *oem and *inf format.

Should you have dissimal RAID or SCSI controller, than you will need the drivers for them as well.

Let me know in case something's confusing you - I will be glad to clarify.

Thank you.

Hi Yana,
If my SCSI controllers are different do I need the extracted drivers for the boot process.Or can it be downloaded once the computer has reboot?
Thank you.

Hi Babac. The drivers that are absolutely critical are the drivers for you hard drive controller. You can download chipset, video and LAN drivers after the UR is done but you MUST have the drivers for your stroage controller during the UR process.

Hi Jim.
Thanks for your answer.
Can you tell me if a driver for a hard drive controller is the same thing as a straight hard drive driver.
If not, what is the difference?

Hi Babac. It is a hard concept but hard drives do not have drivers. If you look on hard drive manufacturer's web pages you just won't find them.

What makes everything work are the drivers for the hard drive controller. Those are a must. Especially with UR. You mentioned you have SCSI hard drive controllers. You need to download the drivers for the SCSI controller and include them when you do UR. The chipset drivers, video drivers, LAN drivers and everything else can be done after the UR but the hard drive controller drivers must be done at the time of UR.

Hi Jim,
In fact, as I don't know what it is, I don't really know if I have SCSI hard drive controller.
How do I check that?
Thank you.

Good question. The hard drives have to be attached to something cable wise. Either to connectors on the motherboard or some kind of interface card. You will have to take the side of the case off and follow the data cable from the hard drive and find out what it is connected to. If it is connected to a interface card you can usually find markings on the card to let you know who the manufacturer is along with the model number. If Windows is already running on that computer you should be able to go in to device manager and it will show you what the hard drive controller is.

Hi Jim,
What I did finally to find out about this controller, is a PC analysis with PC Wizard 2010.It does find for me the actual name of this infamous controller.
Hence, it was easy for me to find the needed driver.
Thanks for your help.