The Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) is the only application able to create ONE hardware-independent hard drive image that can easily be deployed to any laptop or desktop regardless of manufacturer. The UIU contains a constantly updated and vetted driver database not only containing all the best and most applicable drivers for your existing as well as yet-to-be-purchased hardware, but is programatically created to asign the appropriate drivers in the appropriate order to eliminate hardware difficulties. The UIU enables deployment of a single image to all legacy machines as well as to all the newest hardware by handling HAL discrepancies, network controllers, Sysprep etc.