Acronis Universal Recovery

From what I understand in the manual, you can insert OEM HD drivers at the universal restore questions in the restore procedure, if you need them.

Then windows runs a minisetup to find all the drivers. How Acronis managed not to change the sid or destroy the AD in the process, I don't know - the only tool that does anything like this is sysprep.

Or maybe they just insert the drivers into CriticalDeviceDatabase

I think they reverse engineered sysprep

 

Hello MrChris,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Backup Software.

Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

Yes, you are right. This Windows default driver storage folders is located in the image being restored and Acronis True Image will find the appropriate drivers in this folder in the image archive.

Please also be aware that you can specify the location for drivers search manually. You will have such an opportunity during the restoration process. Those drivers can reside on a removable media (e.g. CD,DVD, USB drive, network drive, etc.).

Thank you.
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Kirill Omelchenko