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Acronis TI 2013 - Image builder and Wifi Driver

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Hi,

I'm a new customer of Acronis TI 2013 (evaluating the product) and I have a concern about restoring my partition over a NAS disk. I see many thread about that on this forum but all seems a little bit outdated (like 2 years ago)

I have actually only a Wifi PCI-E (Atheros chip) card pluged on my computer and I'm wondering if with Acronis TI 2013 I will be able to handle my wifi card ?

Thanks for your help !

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I'm afraid the only answer I can offer is to try it, if the recovery CD/USB stick can boot and see your netowrk connection then you are good to go. Is the WiFi handled in BIOS or require a driver to start up?

If it requires a driver, I'm not so optimistic, but booting from th erecovery environment will soon tell you.

Hi Colin,

No it's not a built in wifi chip is a PCI-E card. And any valid network connection after booting on the rescue media , there is any way to edit driver load on this rescue media ?

I can't imagine that Acronis haven't any solution/knowledge to load specific driver on their boot media ?

Unless you are a Linux expert, you can't add a driver as the Linux kernel would need to be recompiled. You can contact Acronis and ask them to make a recovery ISO specifically for your situation, I imagine you have to supply them with an Acronis Sytem Report. I don't know how long this takes.

Yeah maybe but actualy I'm still in trial mode of this product. I want to be sure I can restore from a NAS with a Wifi link

Acronis True Image Linux based bootable Rescue Media products do not support WIFI. It is possible to create WinPE 3.1 or higher based Rescue Media (with the additional purchase of the Plus Pack) than can support WIFI NICs with the addition of the proper drivers if not present in the default build of the WinPE image.

Some interesting reading on this topic:
http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2011/12/03/windows-pe-builder-script-for-waik…

James F wrote:

Acronis True Image Linux based bootable Rescue Media products do not support WIFI. It is possible to create WinPE 3.1 or higher based Rescue Media (with the additional purchase of the Plus Pack) than can support WIFI NICs with the addition of the proper drivers if not present in the default build of the WinPE image.

Some interesting reading on this topic:
http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2011/12/03/windows-pe-builder-script-for-waik…

Hi James F, thanks for you reply. Do we think same story as cancelation of Paragon's WinPE licence will be happen to Acronis ?

I don't want to buy a solution based on WinPE if there will some licencing issue with Microsoft !

How about additional Plus pack and the Rescue Media, there is a way to test it before buying it ? Have you got some whitepaper about it ?

Thanks !