ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server User's Guide download pdf (Page 223)

 you have chosen to use Acronis Active Restore (p. 358)

because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine.

Preparation

Before recovering Windows to dissimilar hardware, make sure that you have the drivers for the new

HDD controller and the chipset. These drivers are critical to start the operating system. Use the CD or

DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor’s Web site. The

driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. If you download the drivers in the *.exe,

*.cab or *.zip format, extract them using a third-party application, such as WinRAR

(http://www.rarlab.com/) or Universal Extractor (http://legroom.net/software/uniextract).

The best practice is to store drivers for all the hardware used in your organization in a single

repository sorted by device type or by the hardware configurations. You can keep a copy of the

repository on a DVD or a flash drive; pick some drivers and add them to the bootable media; create

the custom bootable media with the necessary drivers (and the necessary network configuration) for

each of your servers. Or you can simply specify the path to the repository every time Universal

Restore is used.

Universal Restore settings

Automatic driver search

Specify where the program will search for the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), HDD controller

driver and network adapter driver(s):

- If the drivers are on a vendor's disc or other removable media, turn on the Search removable

media.

- If the drivers are located in a networked folder or on the bootable media, specify the path to

the folder in the Search folder field.

During recovery, Universal Restore will perform the recursive search in all the sub-folders of the

specified folder, find the most suitable HAL and HDD controller drivers of all those available, and

install them into the recovered system. Universal Restore also searches for the network adapter

driver; the path to the found driver is then transmitted by Universal Restore to the operating

system. If the hardware has multiple network interface cards, Universal Restore will try to

configure all the cards' drivers. In case Universal Restore cannot find a compatible driver in the

specified locations, it will specify the problem device and ask for a disc or a network path to the

driver.

Once Windows boots, it will initialize the standard procedure for installing new hardware. The

network adapter driver will be installed silently if the driver has the Microsoft Windows

signature. Otherwise, Windows will ask for confirmation whether to install the unsigned driver.

After that, you will be able to configure the network connection and specify drivers for the video

adapter, USB and other devices.

Mass storage drivers to install anyway

To access this option, select the Advanced view check box.

If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller such as RAID (especially NVIDIA

RAID) or a fibre channel adapter, specify the appropriate drivers in the Drivers field.

The drivers defined here will have priority. They will be installed, with appropriate warnings,

even if the program finds a better driver.

Use this option only if the automatic drivers search does not help to boot the system.

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