Has anybody else experienced this?
I have a client with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and a Dell Inspiron 660 Desktop running Windows 8.1 Home Premium 64-bit (not on the domain, of course). The server has been successfully making backups of the client computer and is running Client Restore Service. Two days ago the client computer HDD failed, so I replaced it with a new one (same size), booted from a USB Recovery Key (made from the server previously), and successfully ran a client restore over the network. All seemed to go like clockwork, except the computer won’t boot now, saying “No boot device available.”
A few more details about the restore process:
The drive was new so it had to be initialized during the restore process of course. I initialized it for GPT and then had to create the partitions manually. When you get to the next screen (“Confirm volumes to restore”), it shows you which partitions/volumes are available for restore and their sizes. I kind of worked backwards by creating the partitions found on this screen in Disk Management in the previous step (if that makes sense). The reason is, I was getting red lines (instead of green arrows) during the “match up” process on the Confirm Volumes to Restore step until I made the partitions the same size or larger. There were four volumes to restore …
450MB: Local Disk (I think this is the System Reserved partition that contains the boot information)
12523MB: PBR Image
500MB: WINRETOOLS
939.727: System (C
What am I doing wrong? I’m honestly not sure if I have the volumes in the right order or if it matters what order they are in (except for the System Reserved partition being at the beginning, and I’m assuming that that is what the 450MB volume is; not sure. I found this order on the server in the client computer backup details. However, the restore wizard listed them in a different order in the backup details …
939.727: System (C
500MB: WINRETOOLS
450MB: Local Disk (I think this is the System Reserved partition that contains the boot information)
12523MB: PBR Image
Does the System (C partition need to be right after the System Reserved partition? I’m pretty sure the restore process does not automatically create that System Reserved partition. As far as I know, you have to do that manually, but again, I’m not even sure what that 450MB volume is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
I have a client with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and a Dell Inspiron 660 Desktop running Windows 8.1 Home Premium 64-bit (not on the domain, of course). The server has been successfully making backups of the client computer and is running Client Restore Service. Two days ago the client computer HDD failed, so I replaced it with a new one (same size), booted from a USB Recovery Key (made from the server previously), and successfully ran a client restore over the network. All seemed to go like clockwork, except the computer won’t boot now, saying “No boot device available.”
A few more details about the restore process:
The drive was new so it had to be initialized during the restore process of course. I initialized it for GPT and then had to create the partitions manually. When you get to the next screen (“Confirm volumes to restore”), it shows you which partitions/volumes are available for restore and their sizes. I kind of worked backwards by creating the partitions found on this screen in Disk Management in the previous step (if that makes sense). The reason is, I was getting red lines (instead of green arrows) during the “match up” process on the Confirm Volumes to Restore step until I made the partitions the same size or larger. There were four volumes to restore …
450MB: Local Disk (I think this is the System Reserved partition that contains the boot information)
12523MB: PBR Image
500MB: WINRETOOLS
939.727: System (C
What am I doing wrong? I’m honestly not sure if I have the volumes in the right order or if it matters what order they are in (except for the System Reserved partition being at the beginning, and I’m assuming that that is what the 450MB volume is; not sure. I found this order on the server in the client computer backup details. However, the restore wizard listed them in a different order in the backup details …
939.727: System (C
500MB: WINRETOOLS
450MB: Local Disk (I think this is the System Reserved partition that contains the boot information)
12523MB: PBR Image
Does the System (C partition need to be right after the System Reserved partition? I’m pretty sure the restore process does not automatically create that System Reserved partition. As far as I know, you have to do that manually, but again, I’m not even sure what that 450MB volume is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!