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Attempting Universal Restore Disc - Asking For Driver adicsc.inf and will not continue

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Why can't I create a universal restore disc?  Why am I asked for a driver adicsc.inf that I don't have?  (And can't find a reference to online either)?

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Bob, it sounds to me as if you have selected your current system Windows\Inf folder when creating the Universal Restore media and this is then giving the error about this particular CD / DVD changer driver file.

With Universal Restore media, you should only select drivers for new hardware on a different system that you want to restore a backup from the current system to.  In the majority of cases, you do not need to add any drivers at all, and just apply the Universal Restore after doing a restore to different hardware, then let Windows 'discover' generic drivers for any new hardware as it boots the OS on that new hardware.

If the new hardware fails to boot because of a missing hardware driver, then download and offer the drivers for that specific hardware component to the Universal Restore media creator, and then reapply Univeral Restore and try again.

Lol, I was hoping to put drivers on the disc without yet knowing what the exact hardware was I would be "restoring to" .  I finally did simply made a disc without additional drivers, but it seemed it would be convenient to put some that Windows typically omits. Such as my sound card and Firewire card driver and so forth. 

A side issue:  There used to be web sites where if I got an error of a missing driver (named in an error message) within Windows, I could search for that particular driver online.  It looks like even the official Windows site doesn't let one search by driver name?

Bob, understand your reasons for wanting to include drivers, but I find it easier to just keep those on a spare USB stick for when they may be needed.  The later versions of Windows are better at 'finding' drivers for hardware than the earlier ones were.

For missing drivers, I mainly do a quick Google search and see what comes up, otherwise try such as the IObit Driver Booster free version or similar driver utilities - again, with these I tend to install, do a check then remove again, so that I don't get nagged or find other 'offers' being installed by their program updates!