Paragon Adaptive Restore Technology

Background

Windows family operating systems are notorious for their excessive sensibility to hardware, especially when it turns to replacement of such a crucial device as HDD controller or motherboard – actually Windows will most likely fail to boot as a result of this operation.

With our Adaptive Restore technology you can forget about that 'excessive sensibility of Windows OS' once and for all. Developed back in 2008, it now enables to make any Win2K system (Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 and Vista/7/Server 2008) bootable on dissimilar hardware.

How It Works

Successful migration of a Win2K system to a different hardware platform involves several actions:

Change of the Windows kernel settings according to the new configuration. We detect the given hardware profile and automatically install the appropriate Windows HAL and kernel.
Installation of drivers for boot critical devices. We detect those without drivers and automatically try to install lacking drivers from the built-in Windows repository. If there’s no driver in the repository, we prompt the user to set a path to an additional driver repository, strongly recommending not to proceed until all drivers for the found boot critical devices are installed. In case drivers for these devices are installed, but disabled, they will be enabled.
Installation of drivers for a PS/2 mouse and keyboard. This action will only be accomplished for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003.
Installation of drivers for network cards. We detect those without drivers and automatically try to install lacking drivers from the built-in Windows repository. If there’s no driver in the repository, we prompt the user to set a path to an additional driver repository.

Why Paragon Adaptive Restore

Unlike competitors all our flagship products include this technology by default
We analyze all installed drivers inside a target system to report on devices without drivers
We search for and install lacking drivers from the built-in Windows repository
We notify you about boot critical devices without drivers (HDD/RAID controllers, etc.), automatically prompting to provide a path to a driver repository
We name all devices according to their model description, not some alphanumeric code, which requires additional deciphering
We determine and install drivers not only for boot critical devices, but for physically connected NICs as well

Key Use Cases

Migration to a different hardware platform with minimal effort
Smooth hardware upgrade without re-installing Windows and all applications
Replacement of failed hardware by not an exact match for the original system specifications