Boot the target PC with the Windows PE rescue CD or USB equivalent.

There is no need to reboot your PC after restoring an Image and before you run ReDeploy. Restore your system image to the PC being deployed before running ReDeploy. Note: ReDeploy modifies an existing offline operating system to work with new hardware. This allows the new hardware to be detected and the configuration of the Windows system modified to enable it to boot. You need to run ReDeploy from the Windows PE Reflect rescue CD. You can complete the driver installation for devices such as network and graphics adapters when your windows installation boots on your new hardware. It does not, however, install the complete driver set for the new hardware. ReDeploy makes the complex process of getting an off-line Windows operating system running, as easy and intuitive as possible. ReDeploy detects changes to critical system features, locates relevant drivers and injects them into your Windows operating system so it boots. For a stable system, the driver needs to match the hardware, in this example, the CPU model. Drivers are optionally loaded to handle specific central processing unit (CPU) features. The kernel and its associated hardware abstraction layer (HAL) need to match the motherboard for best enabling.

When the kernel and critical drivers are loaded, the kernel starts. If the new hardware configuration requires a new driver to read the disk containing the operating system then Windows will fail to boot.

It is skipped during a normal Windows boot making the boot delay acceptable.Įarly in the boot process, the boot loader loads the Windows kernel (the core of the operating system) and the critical drivers required to get Windows up and running. Moving between a physical and a virtual machine (P2V / V2P).Ĭhanging a non-raid to a raid installation or legacy SATA to AHCI SATA.Īspects of the Windows boot process can cause a boot failure after significant changes to the hardware, ReDeploy can overcome these.ĭiscovering hardware and association with matching device drivers is time consuming and must be undertaken while windows is being installed. There are a variety of scenarios where you move a windows installation to a new machine, for example:ĭue to hardware failure or planned upgrade. Macrium ReDeploy overcomes issues with Windows boot processes to run a Windows installation on new hardware.

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