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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 Applying Universal Restore to multiple operating systems
During recovery, you can use Universal Restore for operating systems of a certain type: all Windows
systems, all Linux systems, or both.
If your selection of volumes to recover contains multiple Windows systems, you can specify all
drivers for them in a single list. Each driver will be installed in the operating system for which it is
intended.
5.3 Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and
vice versa
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 supports transferring Windows operating systems between
BIOS-based hardware and hardware that supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
Important: When migrating systems to UEFI-based hardware, use Linux-based bootable media, since PE-based
bootable media and Acronis PXE Server do not support UEFI.
5.3.1 Recovering volumes
Let's assume you backed up the system and boot volumes (or the entire machine) and want to
recover these volumes to a different platform. The ability of the recovered system to boot up
depends on the following factors:
 Source operating system: convertible or non-convertible OS. The following Microsoft Windows
operating systems are convertible, that is, allow changing the boot mode from BIOS to UEFI and
back:
 Windows Vista SP1 x64 and later.
 Windows Server 2008 x64 SP1 and later.
 Windows 7 x64.
 Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.
All other operating systems are non-convertible.