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ATI2016 Universal Restore/Extracting drivers

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Hi, I'll be upgrading my PC hardware and plan to use Acronis Universal Restore. It instructs to extract drivers for the new hardware (chipset, etc) to obtain the inf, oem or sys files. Problem is that I see no files with those extensions when unzipping the exe files for the drivers. Any hint? Thanks

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After unzipping the exe's copy entire contents to the media you plan to use for the repository for UR to access when looking for drivers.

Enchantech wrote:

After unzipping the exe's copy entire contents to the media you plan to use for the repository for UR to access when looking for drivers.

Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes, I understand I have to do that, but as explained here, Acronis Universal Restore needs the drivers with oem, inf or sys extensions, and when unzipping the exe's I see no files with those extensions, so will UR work anyway? Thanks

I believe so yes.

I hope you're right, because I believe that if Universal Restore does not find drivers in the OEM, INF or SYS format, it won't work.

What hardware upgrades are you making nd what OS are you working with?

I would say your chances are good that you could recover your OS image to the new hardware and boot the machine without using Universal Restore.  Windows default drivers shoud suffice to do that.  After booted you can install the correct drivers.

My system currently is an Asus P8Z77V-Deluxe/Intel i7 3770K/Windows 8.1x64 and upgrading to Asus Z170-A/Intel i7 6700K/Windows 8.1x64 (same OS obviously as I want to use Acronis UR). The most critical drivers are Chipset and Storage drivers, and I don't think it'll boot directly since Z170 is a whole new chipset.

I looked at what Asus provides for this motherboard. The Chipset driver does not supply the inf files you need. Look on the DVD that came with the motherboard. Drill down in the Drivers folder. I find the inf files for a different motherboard listed at \Drivers\Chipset\Driver\Install\All.

The SATA drivers are provided on the Asus website. I found then at IRST_Win7-81-10_V14601029\IRST\Driver\Disk\64bit.

If you don't find the Chipset drivers, give UR a try anyway. I have found Chipset drivers are usually not need to get a successful boot.

Hi Mustang, yes, I had already looked in the Asus drivers' CD and found no inf files either for the chipset,even after unzipping all possible exe or msi files, however as you say the SATA drivers when unzipped do show inf files. I also searched the official Intel drivers but was unable to find them.

I think you have all you need.

Thanks Enchantech and Mustang, I will report back the results as soon as I finish this experiment :-)

Hi, there was no need to use ATI or Universal Restore, I placed the original OS SSD in the new system and it booted fine, even installed some drivers by itself, and I was able to install/update remaining drivers. Everything up and running well, thanks.