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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Managing clients and configurations
  4. Client configuration properties
  5. Devices and drivers properties
  6. Force installation of this driver instead of Windows supplied or newer driver
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

Force installation of this driver instead of Windows supplied or newer driver

When BMR saves third-party drivers from a protected system, the driver signing is lost. (Third-party drivers are those that are not part of the Windows distribution.) During the BMR restore, the installation process installs the standard drivers into the temporary repair environment because the drivers from the protected system are unsigned.

You can edit the configuration so that the discovered drivers are forcefully installed onto the temporary repair environment rather than the standard Windows drivers. This option also helps to select particular driver version.

To use discovered Windows drivers during a restore

  1. In the Devices & Drivers property sheet, select the desired driver from the list of drivers in the bottom window, and click Change.
  2. Select the Force installation of this driver instead of Windows supplied or newer driver check box.
  3. Click OK.

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