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Universal restor to new motherboard and CPU

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Win7 end of support is nearing so I decided to upgrade my old system, run universal restore to get Win7 working in the new system, and then upgrade to Windows 10. 55% of the way through I get a error that I am missing a driver. Looks to be the SATA driver for the new motherboard. I downloaded the Win7 drivers for the new MB to an internal disc and tried to point UR to that folder during setup, but I still fail at 55% with the same error. I'm at a loss on what to do next.

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Craig, welcome to these public User Forums.

Does your new motherboard support being used with Windows 7 and does the makers support site provide drivers for Windows 7.

If you have a spare disk drive to use, try doing a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 and see what that shows you in terms of what devices are found and what drivers are used?

If you can get Windows 7 working using a spare drive, then do an upgrade to Windows 10 based on that working system to get the new hardware activated for Win 10.  Once that is done, you could either work from that point or else, put back the old motherboard and do a Windows 7 to 10 upgrade on that working combination.  That would allow you to take a new backup of the working Windows 10 system and restore that again after changing the motherboard and not have to worry about get activated or needing to use AUR.