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WHS 2011 Restore Hell BMR on windows 7

Answered WHS 2011 Restore Hell BMR on windows 7

  • Friday, January 18, 2013 2:04 PM
     
     
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    Hello,

    I'm having issues trying to restore from a Raid 0 Failure on my Intel SSD's.

    After giving up on trying to recover the drives,  I formatted scanned for errors recreated the array then tried to restore the machine from the WHS2011 images.

    First I tried using the USB solution but when it tries to boot it claims that a required device is inaccessible 0xc000000d

    After giving up on that, I figured, since I have XP still on my old 1TB hd that I retired to just data, might as well boot to that. When I do that I cannot install the connector due to misc errors that others seem to have. 

    I then tried using the client recovery wizard, and you can double click the 32/64 bit versions as they do absolutely nothing at all and just crash as soon as you launch and asks to send MS a report. Testing that exe on my laptop which has win 7 works fine. 

    I cannot simply remove the HD and slave it to the server, or to the windows 7 machine because I recreated the Raid array and want to restore the image to these drives. 

    I finally broke down and tried using the WHS2011 DVD to boot the machine and go to the recovery there. When I selected use network for the recovery files it asks for the password for the share then gives another error message....

    Help I'm running out of options, the last thing I can think of is installing windows 7 on a spare drive and running the recovery wizard 

     

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  • Friday, January 18, 2013 10:32 PM
     
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    Your are trying to restore a Windows 7 system from the WHS2011 in your network, correct?

    Have you read through this article:

    http://www.wegotserved.com/2012/03/29/windows-home-server-2011-step-step-part-10-restoring-files-folders-pcs/

    and many just like it?  You may want to give it a rest for overnight and come back fresh.

    Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP]

     
  • Monday, January 21, 2013 7:25 AM
     
     
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    Hi Larry,

    Ok so more news since I last updated this thread. 

    I've tried the method in your link first before posting here, but that was a total bust for a few reasons (#1 in my frist post I got device inaccessible) following that, I was able to resolve that, I then got 

    RestoreCDInit.exe - Application Error
    The exception Cannot Continue
    Windows cannot continue from this exception.
    (0xc0000025) occured in the application at location 0xff43b477.
    Click on OK to terminate the program

    Regardless if I tried in EFI/Forced BIOS mode

    http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/is/whs2011/thread/14f0a649-e9e9-4b79-a767-c850b773d117

    The link above explains how to fix, however, I think there is a problem with ASUS boards as I along with someone else have the same problem regardless if I select EFI or Bios mode.

    I'd like to understand the windows 7 Recovery options, and if you select restore form image on network why does it crash when after entering user creds?

    The only method I could come up with was using my windows 7 laptop as a stating ground to recover to a spare HD. Then ghosting that HD to my raid array in my Desktop. 

    Since I did not backup EVERYTHING on the machine it didn't restore windows nor may other folders, so i'm not quite sure how to boot the machine now becuase if I install windows 7 over the old stuff which is just the users directory and a few others it will not carry over the profiles and I will have to manually copy, unless BMR copies everything regardless if you have all folders setup for back up? 

    *RANT*

    I think the lack of clarity for initial backups and what is needed and the constant errors which have zero meaning to end users really make this product subpar for a MS product IMO.

    *END RANT*

    Now, any suggestions on getting this WINPE usb to boot up correctly? Ultimately that would be the best way to restore.