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Trying Acronis 2014 Universal Restore to Dissimiliar hardware with ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0

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Hello All,

Let me start by saying I am in the process of upgrading my kids computer. I got them an Asus M5A97 LE 2.0. I also got 16gb of ram and processor upgrade. Well I also have Acronis True Image 2014 which should allow me to recover to new hardware. New hardware is in and I start the recovery using a usb stick which has the drivers.

At the end of the recovery when it is restoring drivers there are three drivers it says it can't find I click ignore it completes box comes up and blue screens.

I am assuming this is due to one of the drivers. The drivers it says it cant find for devices are

Ven_1002&Dev_4396&subsys_43961002

Ven_1002&Dev_4397&subsys_43971002

Ven_1002&Dev_4399&subsys_43991002

Unless there is something in the bios as this is a Win 7 64bit box and the board of course has a wonderful (sarcastic) UEFI bios.

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Try accessing the UEFI menu of your motherboard and then disable Secure Boot and enable CSM(Legacy) boot. Then try the recovery again. This time use "Add New Disk" before the restore to reinitialize the drive as MBR. If it was unallocated during your previous restore with UEFI boot enabled, True Image may have changed it to GPT.

Windows 7 has very limited UEFI support and in most cases will not boot on UEFI systems. Enabling CSM will emulate a BIOS system and should allow Windows 7 to boot.

When using Universal Restore from Acronis 2014, I get PCI files missing at the end of the restore process.  It is looking for files but  I can't find where they are at.  I thought they would be on the Windows install disk but I can't find them .....Any help would be great

Paul, before using Universal Restore you should first have restored your backup of your Windows OS drive to the new hardware using the normal Acronis Rescue Media, then rebooted to use the Universal Restore media which will then try to prepare the restored OS to work with the new hardware it will now encounter when booting.

Universal Restore should only need device drivers for any disk controllers that are found on the new hardware that didn't exist on the old hardware and which have no generic device drivers that could be used.