Universal Deploy driver question
Is it best to store all the drivers needed for all your systems in one large shared folder on a network drive alongside the images or is there a different method.
Does Universal deploy actually search for drivers to use or do you need to point it to ones specific to the hardware your're going to deploy to?
Lastely are the drivers needed from target PC's ( New Installs ) located in the Drivers folder in Window/system32 folder?
Thank you,
Joe
Hello all,
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hackerjoe,
Please note, if you downloaded the drivers in *.exe, *.cab, *.zip format, you should extract them first.
The driver files should have *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extension.
Thank you.
Ok thanks,
I think I found them as Windows stores them in c:\windows\inf also I can run a driver application like driver genious and create a seperate file that way as well for each of the PC's in my network.
Thank you,
Joe
Joe, best practice is to download drivers from the vendor's web-site, extract them and use with Universal Deploy. Windows\system32 didn't work for me.
Ok where do you extract them to ?
also did you try using the c:/windows/inf folder the .inf files are in there !
I have a driver problem too. I have been putting them in a USB thumbdrive and it seems to work so far. I have been getting farther along moving the computer files to new hardware with Universal Restore but I cannot get any farther. It appears that I need more drivers but I do not know which ones I need to use to go further. It boots but only gets to mup.sys and it hangs. On an almost identical system that works, the next file is iomdisk.sys. Which one of these is the actual problem? Furthermore there is some error statement that says the internet connection drivers are not loaded. Do I have to determine EVERY driver and then find and have it available to be loaded? I have TrueImage 9.1. I am going from an Intel Pentium D machine (32-bit) to an AMD Opteron machine (64-bit). I am sorta thinking that the drivers are all probably different. True?
Hello all,
Edward, first of all, please make sure you use the latest build of the software.
You can download all necessary files from update section in your account.
If you have not registered your product on our web site yet, we recommend to do it in order to receive free updates.
- Choose Product registration
- Enter the serial number for your Acronis product in the corresponding field.
It's not necessary to specify each driver for your hardware, the goal is to get .inf file for hard drive controller (you can download it from vendors website). And if you don't do so, our Universal Restore will apply some standard drivers to your new hardware.
Thank you.