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Universal restore, and drivers.

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I'm mostly interested in Universal restore, because my motherboard died recently and I had to start from scratch.    So my question is this,  When and how do I install drivers to a bootable media when I don't know what drivers I need until I buy a new MB.  

If my pc fails and I build a new Pc then I will know what drivers I need but how to install them?.

thanks John.

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John, if you build a new PC from scratch and start with a new OS, Universal restore will not be needed.  You would simply load Windows, go to your motherboard manufacturer site, download the necessary drivers and load the drivers through computer management >>> device manager.

If you plan to restore an image of your previous machine or boot the existing hard drive on the new motherboard, in most cases, you would just run universal restore "as is" with no additional drivers.  That should hopefully allow the system to boot with generic microsoft drivers as if you had just installed Windows cleanly on the system (but at teh same time with all of your data, applications and settings included).  Then, you'd once again grab the drivers from your manufacturer website, and install them manually through computer managment >>> device manager.

Just be aware that a new motherboard may have different features/settings not found on your old one.  For instance, if your old motherboard was Legacy/bios boot only, but a new one is primarily GPT/UEFI you could still have boot issues unless you enable legacy/bios mode on the new board  and/or set the SATA mode to what it was on the old one too (AHCI, RAID or SATA are usually the options). 

In your case, it sounds like you just really need to grab the drivers from our bios manufactuer website, download them and keep them handy on another storage device like an external hard drive. 

Thank you Bobbo, thanks very much for all that information, I will keep this handy.  Yes that is what i want to avoid reloading all my programs and data as I did when my MB. died. Although I had back ups on another drive in the case it took a lot of time to install windows on a new drive, because I first had to load win 8 then go to win 10 because they were upgrade versions.

I was hoping universal restore might be an easier option.  But I agree with you. Installing from scratch has made it a lot faster. 

Again thanks for your reply it is most appreciated.

The manual Just didn't make sense to me as to when to include the drivers. I may have missed something.

cheers