Bare metal recovery can't find any system images

[mrstrong]

Hi,

 

got an old server 2008 R2, going to decommission soon (then maybe try installing a later server OS for testing etc).

It's not "actively used" so thought I'd try a bare metal recovery (windows server backup) to "test my disaster recovery"

 

Booted from 2008 R2 iso off a usb, gone into repair but scan does not find system image but they

are there as you can see in screenshot (I: drive external seagate usb) so not a driver issue ?

 

Doesn't give me much faith in WSB :-(

 

[Silica]

How are you running your backups? What system?

[Fazza]

How are you running your backups? What system?

 

He says in his post he's using WSB.

[Arthur]

Are the drives in the server connected to a RAID controller?

 

Try loading the relevant driver using drvload.exe through the Command Prompt. WSB should then see the physical drive(s).

Edited July 26, 2019 by Arthur

[Fazza]

Are the drives in the server connected to a RAID controller?

 

Try loading the relevant driver using drvload.exe through the Command Prompt. WSB should then see the physical drive(s).

 

Does that prevent the images from being listed then?

[Silica]

I'd suggest the following:

1. Try a drive with USB 2 if the server is not modern.

2. Put the image on a server share, give Everyone read/write temporarily and try to find it that way (may need to load network drivers)

3. Point the tool directly to the WindowsImageBackup folder.

[Fazza]

Are you 100% certain it is 2008R2 and not just 2008 as the only time I've seen this is when I've booted from an OS disk that doesnt match the OS of the backup.

[Arthur]

Does that prevent the images from being listed then?

I was thinking more of WSB not being able to see the physical HDDs in the server rather than the USB HDD.

 

Regarding the USB issue. @Silica's suggestions are good.

 

Unlike more modern versions of Windows, 2008 R2 doesn't include built-in drivers for things like USB 3 controllers.

[Silica]

Are the drives in the server connected to a RAID controller?

 

Try loading the relevant driver using drvload.exe through the Command Prompt. WSB should then see the physical drive(s).

The issue seems to be before this could be an issue. OP can't see his system restore point from the USB device it's stored on yet.

[mrstrong]

Thanks, sorry didn't reply, only work term time and just got back to expected start of year chaos.

Unfortunately that server has now died so I'm trying to fix that first

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/209241-troubleshooting-server-wont-boot.html