Has anyone tried adding drivers from driverpacks.net when creating a B&R bootable disc.
HI all,
I have some small business clients that don't have spare computers to restore to when their system fails. therefore the Best practice of maintaining a disc of drivers from spare hardware suggested in the help docs do not apply in this situation.
However, it seems that it would be prudent to have a bootable B&R disc that contains as many drivers to Dissimilar hardware as possible similar to creating an OS slip stream disc.
My thought was to add drive controller, chipset, network and graphic drivers from driverpacks.net when building a B&R bootable disc.
Has anyone tried doing that and id so, dose it work?

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Thanks for replying,
After reviewing the link for "Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore", AUR installs boot device drivers (e.g. hard drive or RAID controller drivers) into the system during the recovery process, so that the operating system can boot from this boot device. If there are proper NIC drivers present in the folder with the drivers, AUR will copy them into the restored system and will schedule their installation on Windows boot-up.
All the other drivers (e.g. video and sound card drivers, plug and play drivers) are not installed by Acronis Universal Restore, as they can be installed in Windows after the successful migration.
Got it!
1. Just to be clear with regard to drivers that are not installed by AUR, does that include chipset drivers?
2. Also, i'm guessing it would not make any sense to add the "other drivers" to the Bootable media since the system will always try to boot from the bootable media first and not Windows.
Nelson.
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One last thing...
the mass storage drivers from "driverpacks.net" are stored under three levels of folders...
folder D -> folder M -> "one folder for each driver".
Is AUR smart enough to traverse through subfolders to find the drivers?
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Hello Nelsonm,
Thank you for the follow-up.
To answer your question about chipset drivers you will need to specify them as well.
You are correct about #2.
AUR can traverse through subfolders to find the drivers.
Let me know if you have additional questions.
Thank you.
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