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Putting drivers for disk controller on USB doesn't seem to work

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I'm using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 for Workstation with Universal Restore.

I made a test yesterday. I put the driver I need on a USB thumb drive and specified the path of the driver while restoring and it doesn't boot because the driver wasn't there.

I then created a new bootable drive with the same driver in it and it works fine.

How can I use USB correctly ? This would be so easier this way because I have many different computer and creating a new CD each time isn't a good solution.

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Hello Martin,

Thank you for posting your question, I will be happy to help. Unfortunately, the root cause of the issue is unknown. I would recommend you to perform the operation again, most probably, the second attempt to recover the archive will run properly. 

Please note, if you downloaded the drivers in *.exe, *.cab, *.zip format, you should extract them first. The driver files should have *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions.

I would also recommend you to try ISOLINUX Bootable Media.

There are two types of Acronis Bootable Media:

- Acronis Bootable Media that you can generate in your Acronis product. This type of media is based on Acronis Loader;
- Acronis Bootable Media that you can download from your account on the Acronis website. This type of media is based on ISOLINUX.
ISOLINUX Bootable Media is usually more up to date than the Acronis Loader one. This is due to the fact a new version of Acronis Bootable Media is uploaded to the website more frequently than regular product updates are released.
You can find the information on how to download the appropriate ISOLINUX file in this article. Please see this article on how to burn an ISO file to a CD disk. 
Perform the recovery using ISOLINUX Bootable Media. The recommendation is to specify the drivers manually. Hardware Vendors usually provide separate drivers for SCSI or RAID controllers. IDE or SATA drivers are usually included into the chipset drivers for the motherboard.

You can follow the step-by-step guide available in this artiсle 

Please let us know the results, we should be sure that the program runs flawlessly. If the provided information is not clear or if you have any other question do not hesitate to post them and we will be glad to answer.
Thank you.