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Using Universal Restore with Dissimilar Hardware in Windows

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Using Windows 7. Swapped out motherboards. Old motherboard died. Using Universal Restore on a different Win 7 PC to generate a bootable CD was simple enough. Booted the CD in the target machine, pointed to the motherboard manufacturer's drivers. Problem: keep getting the error message: "Cannot find device driver PCI\VEN_1002&DEV4396&SUBSYS_43961002&REV00".

Ignoring this and proceeding with the Restore does not work: still cannot get to a Win 7 boot that will allow me to install the rest of the drivers. Any ideas? I am thinking of trying Paragon Univ Restore, don't know if that is any better.

 

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I believe the error indicates that an incorrect or none existent storage controller driver is the problem. What drivers did you include in the source location for the drivers?  Storage drivers must be in either .inf, .sys, or .oem format in order to be used by the system and Universal Restore.  In most cases such driver files when downloaded from the manufacturer or copied from an install DVD/CD are exe files so the driver files themselves must be extracted from those executables for use in your scenario.  Extraction can be done with other party tools such as 7zip.