video and sound card drivers, plug and play drivers) are not installed by Acronis Universal Restore, as they can be installed in Windows after the successful migration.īefore applying Universal Restore to a Windows operating system, make sure that you have the drivers for the new HDD controller and the chipset. (!) Do not use Windows\System32\drivers folder as drivers source. If there are proper NIC drivers present in the folder with the drivers, Acronis Universal Restore will copy them into the restored system and will schedule their installation on Windows boot-up. hard drive or RAID controller drivers) into the system during the recovery process, so that the operating system can boot from this boot device. Acronis Universal Restore is a module that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and install mass storage boot device drivers into the system.