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2.
Manual selection of the mass storage device driver.
If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller (such as a SCSI, RAID, or Fibre
Channel adapter) for the hard disk, you can install the appropriate driver manually, bypassing the
automatic driver search-and-install procedure.
3.
Installing drivers for Plug and Play devices.
Universal Restore relies on the built-in Plug and Play discovery and configuration process to
handle hardware differences in devices that are not critical for the system start, such as video,
audio and USB. Windows takes control over this process during the logon phase, and if some of
the new hardware is not detected, you will have a chance to install drivers for it later manually.
Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep
Universal Restore is not a system preparation tool. You can apply it to any Windows image created
by Acronis products, including images of systems prepared with Microsoft System Preparation Tool
(Sysprep). The following is an example of using both tools on the same system.
Universal Restore does not strip the security identifier (SID) and user profile settings in order to run
the system immediately after recovery without re-joining the domain or re-mapping network user
profiles. If you are going to change the above settings on a recovered system, you can prepare the
system with Sysprep, image it and recover, if need be, using the Universal Restore.
Limitations
Universal Restore is not available:
when a computer is booted with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (using F11) or
the backup image is located in the Acronis Secure Zone or
when using Acronis Active Restore,
because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine.
Universal Restore is not available when recovering Linux.
Getting Universal Restore
Universal Restore comes free with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition and
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition.
Universal Restore for the other product editions is purchased separately, has its own license, and is
installed as a separate feature from the setup file. You need to re-create bootable media to make the
newly installed add-on operational in the bootable environment.
2.14.4
Acronis Active Restore
Active Restore is the Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immediately after
the system recovery is started.
Customers familiar with Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange can note that this product uses
Active Restore to achieve immediate availability of an Exchange information store after starting the
recovery. While based on the same technology, recovery of the Information Store proceeds in quite a
different way than the operating system recovery described in this section.
Supported operating systems
Acronis Active Restore is available when recovering Windows starting from Windows 2000.
