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Universal Restore is useless

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I am finding that Universal Restore is a useless product for any current piece of hardware.

While True Image home works well, the requirement for .INF files to restore to dissimilar hardware makes the product unusable. No current manufacturer supplies their chipset drivers as .INF files. Dell, ASUS, Lenovo and Samsung don't provide .INF files for their drivers. Intel does not even do this. If anyone can prove me wrong and suggest a laptop manufacturer that actually supplies drivers Universal Restore will accept I would be glad to be wrong.

It seems that the manufacturers assume that your computer is bootable so that the drivers are installed after the system is operating. When restoring to dissimilar hardware this is not the case.

I have tried working with Acronis support but have gotten nowhere. They have no suggestions of compatible hardware or websites to find drivers.

If you assume that you can move a backup to a newer machine with Universal Restore you are in for a big surprise.

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Hi Rob,
Acronis Universal Restore can use drivers with *.sys or *.oem extensions too, not *.inf only.
Anyway, if hardware manufacturer supplies drivers in *.exe, *.cab, *.zip format, you can extract them using a third-party application.
Thank you,