Universal restore - dll mising

Copying the storprop.dll file to your drivers folder won't help at all. It should have been installed in your \Windows\System32\ folder as part of the Windows operating system itself. It is the Property Page for Storage Devices and, since it would properly be located there within the Windows OS search path, it should be found automatically by any application just like any other required system DLL. If not, I suppose you could try putting a copy in the same folder with the Acronis application executable, but it really shouldn't be necessary.

Thanks for your reply. But what i have been doing is recovery of a system (disk and its partition) using a previously backup-ed acronis partition image on a different system with different hardware configuration. Of course i have the drivers made available through acronis universal restore search path. That image would have already contained everything of the windows xp files, which include the dll mentioned. But i do not understand why acronis disk recovery would look for this dll towards the end of the recovery process, and failed on that?? I was doing it on a different system with different hardware configuration, so in this case i am using acronis universal restore. The recovery succeeded if i am using same hardware configuration.

Not sure that I understand your question. Are you asking why that storprop.dll file is needed to successfully complete a universal restore operation to different hardware, or why it isn't being found within the backup image that is being restored? It's needed because it's an essential component of the Windows operating system. I really don't know why it's not being found if it's properly located with all of the other required Windows system DLLs.

yes, my question was why that dll is needed to successfully complete a universal restore operation to different hardware. It is not a even a hardware driver files.