Migrating System to Dissimilar Hardware
I've been searching through the forum but am unable to find anything on steps to incorporate drivers for updated hardware into the system restore image. Anyone can can create a system image and restore it to a new machine but to make that new machine boot from the restored image it will require the correct drivers for the new hardware, anyone found a way to do this ?
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If you're using Win10, the first time you boot, it contains most of the common drivers you will need and it will install them. If you need wifi, network, raid or other drivers specific to your system you can add them when you make your Backupper Boot Media https://www.backup-utility.com/help/create-bootable-disk.html
I actually restored an image to a different PC without using universal restore. The initial boot process took a little longer but Win 10 did find all drivers necessary to boot. Once booted, you can add any other drivers you may need. All you are really looking for are enough drivers to get it to boot into Windows. Don't connect any peripherals or external disks, etc on your first boot.
Your first post referred to a new machine and is why I assumed you were just moving your current system to a new one. In that case Backupper Universal restore will take care of it unless you need some specialized driver to boot your system now. That would be the reason you would need to add a driver to your Bootable Media. Once in the new system, if you need any additional drivers to make something function, you can add them at that time. Your only concern is getting the PC to boot into the new system and that can usually be done with generic drivers.
And again to clarify this for you.... you don't add drivers to your backup image, you add them to the Boot Media that you created to boot via CD/DVD or USB. But this won't be necessary unless you need something special to get to your backup image location (wifi or network as an example). When you boot via that Media, you check to use Universal restore (for a dissimilar system). That should be all you need.
If this doesn't answer your question please post again and be very specific on what you are trying to do.
I know putting my system drive in a new machine and trying to boot would probably not work due to the lack of correct drivers but I was hoping that downloading the correct drivers for the new hardware and installing them to the backup image would do the trick.
If your new system is using a new drive (you can reuse the old one if desired) for the OS what Aomei can do for you is this: Create an image of your current system and save it to another internal HD if possible (external should work also). Then put your old OS drive or blank new drive if you are upgrading and the drive with the image in your new system. Boot from the Aomei Bootable Media drive you created, either on a CD or USB. Perform a "restore" from the image you created to your OS drive. Check the Universal restore function. After restoring the image to the drive (new or old) reboot and only have your OS drive (and mouse and keyboard) connected. Then proceed as above. Either way should do it. I can only say this so many times..... the only reason you would need to add drivers to the boot media is if you have a specialized system where specific drivers are required to boot and you are using them BEFORE you change systems. ie.. RAID, wifi, network, SCSI. NOTE again, REQUIRED TO BOOT IN YOUR NORMAL USAGE NOW.
And what I usually do is download all the new drivers from the motherboard website and save them to another internal HD BEFORE I put in the new motherboard. Then I'm ready to install them after the restore.
JohnnyboyGo, thanks for the info. I have the option for UEFI in my bios but don't use it since I have an SSD for my system drive, it's fast enough, I have my 6TB drive configured for GPT for storage and it works just fine under BIOS. However, everything I've found says you can set Windows 7 up to boot from UEFI