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Automatic replacement of the boot critical drivers (HDD controller, PS/2 and USB mouse and keyboard) to the
default Windows drivers to provide the maximum level of compatibility. Once your Windows starts up, it will
initiate reconfiguration of all Plug'n'Play devices, so we do recommend you to provide the latest drivers for your
motherboard and processor at this step, as it can considerably improve the overall performance of your system.
The option to inject 3rd party drivers to guarantee your system will start up on the new hardware. Actually
you’ve got two options, either provide a path to your own driver repository (collection of all drivers to your
hardware devices located in one folder) for the program automatically pick and install only those drivers
required for your OS (recommended), or manually specify drivers critical for the guaranteed startup of your
system on the new hardware.
Adaptive Restore for Windows Vista/7/Server 2008
It is based on the fact that these operating systems do not delete their distributive driver repositories after the setup,
but simply make them inactive in the Windows Registry. So thanks to our technology these driver repositories can be
made available during the restore procedure to let Windows Vista/7 or 2008 Server automatically find and install any
lacking driver with no action from your side required, what is very convenient.
Anyway, not all drivers can be found in the built-in driver repositories, especially when you’ve got to do with specific
SCSI or Serial ATA controllers. For situations of this kind you’ve got the option to inject any 3
rd
party driver, either by
providing a path to your own driver repository (collection of all drivers to your hardware devices located in one folder)
for the program automatically pick and install only those drivers required for your OS (recommended), or manually
specifying drivers critical for the guaranteed startup of your system on the new hardware.
Adaptive Restore Application
Let’s consider a number of situations when the Adaptive Restore feature can help you out:
If you need to upgrade to newer hardware while keeping all your programs and settings intact;
If you need to replace failed hardware and cannot find an exact match for your original system specifications.
Known Issues
1. After transferring Microsoft Vista and later versions to different hardware, you will need to re-activate license of
the system. It’s normal behavior as these systems keep tracking any change of hardware. Re-activation is legally
justified in this case, as you transfer your system to another PC.
2. If you’ve installed several operating systems on one partition, we can only add drivers to the latest version of
OS. Microsoft highly recommends that you install an operating system on a separate partition.
3. Please note drivers are not cached during selection. That’s why if you select a driver to add to the system, but
it’s already unavailable during the operation, the program will end the operation with an error.
Paragon Hot Processing & Volume Shadow Copy Service
Offline versus Online Data Processing
In the course of time there have been developed various methods of data processing. Despite different work concept,
all of them can be divided into two principal groups: offline (cold) and online (hot) data processing techniques.