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Universal Restore question

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Hello all...

I read the manual and searched here first.

I have a Dell 8200 which I am migrating to a Dell 530 (mom and dads pc).

I used ABR 10 with Universal restore.  The transfer failed because of hardware differences.  The question is...Is it suppose to ask me for drivers, etc when it attempts to write to the new pc being that it is on 2 totaly different systems or when the restore is complete, or what?  It sounds like it is suppose to look at the new system and if it detects new hardware, mb, video, etc. it is suppose to prompt me.  I saw a screen when making the bootable media about adding drivers for the new system.  It talks about .inf files but I assume all the files for a particular hardware device need to be loaded on the boot cd?  Certainly you need more than the .inf files?

Otherwise backing up the system and restoring to the same system works great!

Thanks,

Malibu

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How did the restore fail?

All that should be needed to be able to restore the system to a new computer are hard drive controller drivers (PATA, SATA - AHCI, Native). Even if there is such possibility to add other drivers it would be best to install them after the system is restored to the new hardware. Why? Because adding a driver via inf will only add information needed by the system to use the device, any other software that comes with the device (control panels, utilities, tray software) will not be installed, and you will have install it manually so or so. Adding a driver via a inf file will tell acronis about all files needed by this specific device to run it.

I found the answer to my question...

I was trying to restore "disks" instead of "volumes".  Disks does not offer the Universal Restore option...but Volumes does.  I couldn't find this anywhere in the manual and just happened to stumble across it when in another post someone said Universal Restore had to be "selected".  So I started trying different things and finally found the Universal Restore option.  It worked good.  Short of a few misc drivers which I expected anyways, the system is up and running!