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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 by clicking Add folder.
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.
Mass storage drivers to install anyway
To access this setting, expand Show mass storage drivers to install anyway.
You need this setting if:
The target hardware has a specific mass storage controller such as RAID (especially NVIDIA RAID)
or a fibre channel adapter.
You recover a system to a virtual machine that uses a SCSI hard drive controller and is booted
into bootable media. Use SCSI drivers bundled with your virtualization software or download the
latest drivers versions from the software manufacturer website.
If the automatic drivers search does not help to boot the system.
Specify the appropriate drivers by clicking Add driver. The drivers defined here will be installed, with
appropriate warnings, even if the program finds a better driver.
The recovery process
If Universal Restore cannot find a compatible driver in the specified locations, it will display a prompt
with the problem device. Do any of the following:
Add the driver to any of the previously specified locations and click Retry.
If you do not remember the location, continue the recovery. If the result is not satisfactory, start
Universal Restore without recovery by clicking Apply Universal Restore in the media welcome
screen. When configuring the operation, specify the necessary 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 on 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.
5.2.2.2 Universal Restore in Linux
Universal Restore can be applied to Linux operating systems with a kernel version of 2.6.8 or later.
