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Universal restore to new Motherboard

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Hello All,

I am about to swap out my  7 year old Intel motherboard and install  a new AMD 5000 CPU in a new Motherboard. I have created a Universal restore media on a USB drive. I downloaded the chipset drivers for my  new Motherboard BUT it is an .exe file not .inf files which is what Universal Restore wanted me to install on the USB Drive. When I do restore my backup to my new M2 drive will the .exe execute or will I have no chipset drivers ? One more question, did I need Acronis 2019 on the media ? I think I did so will have to back and recreate the media. Instructionms are not that user friendly for first timers.

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Chris, for any migration of an installed Windows OS to new hardware, you will need the full ATI 2019 application on your rescue media as well as having Acronis Universal Restore.

The process in outline is:

  1. Make a full disks & partitions backup of the original computer to an external backup drive.
  2. Identify the BIOS mode used by the original OS by running the msinfo32 command in Windows to identify if it is using Legacy or UEFI BIOS boot mode.
  3. Create the Acronis Rescue Media and AUR media.
    Note: if you create the AUR media using the Acronis Rescue Media Builder tool, then include ATI 2019 in the media but you will need to check that this works correctly after changing the motherboard and allows access to the disk drives involved here.
    Consider using the MVP Custom PE Builder tool (link below) which can create WinPE based rescue media and also include AUR when it is installed in Windows.
  4. Make the hardware changes and check the BIOS boot mode that the new motherboard uses.  If your original MB used Legacy BIOS mode, then the new MB would need to support the same or CSM or else the backup image will need to be migrated from Legacy to UEFI during the Recovery process.  ATI will do this migration automatically if the rescue media is booted in UEFI mode for a Legacy backup image.
  5. Boot from the ATI 2019 rescue media in the correct BIOS mode needed.
  6. Recover the disk backup image.
  7. Boot from the AUR media to complete the migration.
    Note: If the OS is Windows 10, then AUR may not be needed, so worth trying to boot into Windows instead of using AUR initially to see if the changes are handled by the OS.

Reference the chipset drivers in .exe format, try using 7zip or a similar zip utility to open the exe file and extract the driver contents to a local folder.  The alternative method would be to do a vanilla minimal install of Windows 10 to a spare disk drive after changing the MB, then install the chipset drivers by running the .exe, after which you could use a tool such as Double Driver to extract the necessary drivers.