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Hi,
I want to restore my Windows 7(not OEM) to a brand new dissimilar hardware,with an Asus motherboard .
I have the Asus motherboard CD to install its drivers.
My question is:When I restore my Windows to the new machine ,can I point to the CD drive to tell Acronis where to take the necessary drivers to achieve this operation?Are these drivers located on the CD in the right format or they should be extracted first in a different file.
Thanks.

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The answer to your question is yes, but the driver setup files must be *.inf types.

Note if you have changed your motherboard from an Intel to AMD or vice versa, there is a registry tweak that you might need to perform if your first boot results in a BSOD.

Colin B wrote:

The answer to your question is yes, but the driver setup files must be *.inf types.

Note if you have changed your motherboard from an Intel to AMD or vice versa, there is a registry tweak that you might need to perform if your first boot results in a BSOD.

Colin B wrote:

The answer to your question is yes, but the driver setup files must be *.inf types.

All right.This is something I presumed.My question is rather(and was) Are the drivers on the cd in the right format?In other words, are they generally already in the right format or they should be extracted first and put on a USB key?
Thank you.

Romeo,

You'll need to look at the contents of your CD to see how the manufacturer has packaged the drivers, is as MSI or EXE then yes they will need to be extracted, but there is still the possibility that they don't use inf files to install.

All right.
As far as the change of the motherboard from an Intel to AMD or vice versa, and the registry tweak to perform, can you give me more information about this?
Thanks.

Hi Colin,
Great.Now,I understand why in the past I've never been able to boot from such a migration.
However, I do not quite understand the end of your message in that thread:

''At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
disable intelppmTo exit the Recovery Console and to restart the computer, type exit at the Recovery Console command prompt, and then press ENTER.''

1-''Type the following command''-Which following command???I see nothing following...
2-''disable intelppm to exit''-What's that and how do I do it???
Thanks again.

I apologise Romeo, my phrasing and punctuation as a result of cutting and pasting caused confusion. Here it is restyled.

At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following command,

disable intelppm and then press the ENTER button:

To exit the Recovery Console and to restart the computer, type exit at the Recovery Console command prompt, and then press the ENTER button.

Great.That makes more sense to me.
To come back to my AMD/Intel issue, I faced a restore problem not a reboot problem.
At the end of the restore process, I received the following message: ''Restore failed''.
I was trying to migrate from a AMD machine to an Intel machine.
Do you know if I had modified the registry of the AMD machine before making my backup, I would have succeeded in this process.?
Thank you.

Romeo Latour wrote:
Do you know if I had modified the registry of the AMD machine before making my backup, I would have succeeded in this process.?

I don't know, but I think not, I was thinking of you were having a problem booting after the restore, which you would have. I'm also unusre whether that would make the system you were imaging unstable during the imaging process, as although a copy of parts of registry are loaded into protected RAM when Windows boots (one of the reasons why some installations require a reboot), I'm not sure what would happen.

As far as your 'Restore failed', were you doing this from within Windows or from the recovery CD?

Does the image validate and can you explore or mount the image?

Me too, I'm inclined to say that a registry correction before imaging would not have changed much.
I restored through the Recovery CD.The image validated and I tried this migration on 2 computers .I also tried with another software (Paragon) and I failed every time. As far as image mounting, I don't know as I do not have this AMD computer anymore.

Colin,
Another question.The recovery console does not exist anymore.What tool should be used under Windows 7 to fix the AMD/Intel registry issue in safe mode?
Thanks.

In Windows 7 the Recovery Console is accessed either via the installation DVD or via the W7 repair CD that is an option in W7.

Colin,
I do have a Win 7 repair disc and I did not see the Recovery Console.
Does it have a substitute name???

Run the Windows 7 disk using the 'repair' option this does similar things to the old XP repair except it only repairs one problem at a time.

You should also see a command line option which will allow you to perform the same types of things with registry as the XP style recovery console.

The repair Windows 7 disc offers the Command Prompt .
Would it do the job?

Yes, it will.

You should also be able to access it via F8 when you boot your system, just after the BIOS screen disappears