Maleny

Looks like I shouldn't be messing with the BIOS at all, I was only assuming this was the reason my restore was not working. What I am trying to acheive (I think) is to do a full backup of my original computer with Acrois Trueimage. Then boot the laptop from the Acronis universal boot CD and tell Acronis in which folder it will find the chipset, HDD and HDD controller drivers as *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. Acronis should then be able to do a universal restore (to a computer with different hardware) using the drivers it finds to suit the new hardware after which I can load the remaining drivers to get the laptop fully functional. It appears to me that Acronis can't see sub folders so I need to know exactly which files I need so I can put them were Acronis can find them and there are an awfull lot of files that have been extracted from the .exe drivers (I already said I was out of my depth). I have attached a screen print of the .exe drivers I have downloaded, maybe someone could tell me which ones I need.

Progress at last thank you very much. The laptop is a Dell Latitude E6330 and the service tag number is 8RGFRY1 and here is the link to the page I downloaded them from http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/latitude-e6330/drivers I had consdered the possibility that these were only updates not the original files, but were to from here.

I have to admit I am a little out of my depth here. I am trying to do a universal restore (to a computer with different hardware) on a Dell laptop using Acronis True image. Acronis needs the driver information to be in inf. sys. or oem formats. I have downloaded the complete set for the model in question as exe. files from the Dell website and am trying to extract them with Universal Extractor to a set of folders then tell Acronis were to look for them. All of the exe. format files extract Ok except the BIOS drivers. When I attemt to extract them I get the following message from Universal Extractor " F:\Dell laptop drivers\E6330A14.exe cannot be extracted. Filetype returned was: Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0 DLL [Overlay]* ". Can anyone tell me what the problem is (in terms I might be able to understand) and if there is anyway to get around it.