User`s guide

The Windows default driver storage folder is determined in the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current version\DevicePath. This

storage folder is usually WINDOWS/inf.

2. Manual selection of 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

SonicWALL Universal Restore relies on 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.

3.3.3 SonicWALL Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep

SonicWALL Universal Restore is

not

a system preparation tool. You can apply it to any

system image created by SonicWALL products, including images prepared with Microsoft

System Preparation Tool (Sysprep). The following is an example of using both tools on

the same system.

SonicWALL Universal Restore does not strip 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

restore, if need be, using SonicWALL Universal Restore.

3.3.4 Limitations in using SonicWALL Universal Restore

1. The system recovered by SonicWALL Universal Restore might not start if the partition

structure in the image or the target disk partitioning does not coincide with that of the

source disk. As a result, the loader, restored from the image, will point to the wrong

partition and the system will not boot or will malfunction.

Such might be the case if you:

- image only selected partitions but not the entire source disk

Keep in mind, that the source disk may have a hidden maintenance partition created by

the computer vendor. Therefore, if you check each partition for backup instead of

checking the disk, this hidden partition will not be included into the image.

- restore not the entire source disk, but only the selected partitions. In some cases,

especially if your system resides on a partition other than the first, this can confuse the

loader and prevent the restored system from startup.

To avoid the problem, we recommend that you image and restore the entire system disk.

3.4 Viewing disk and partition information

You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards.

To the right are three icons: Arrange Icons by, Choose Columns… and i (Display

the properties of the selected item), the last duplicated in the context menu invoked

by right-clicking objects.