Is WS2012R2E Capable of Bare Metal Restore to UEFI Client?

Question

Hi,
After two weeks of fruitless effort attempting a client bare metal restore to a UEFI machine, I'm now wondering if it is supported in W2012R2E?
This same machine is able to use WDS over the network to do a remote software install. Similarly, two other non-EUFI (BIOS) machines on the same network/server are able to do bare metal restores with no problem.
No matter how the client UEFI machine is configured, it always gets to the same point in the "Full System Restore Wizard" and gets hung up - it can't find the server on the network. (Again, it works fine when using the same WDS server to do a remote
software install - finds the server just fine).
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff

Answer 1

Hi Justin,
Let me take your questions one by one:
Was it an error message when the Full System Restore Wizard hung up? Or no any error message, just the wizard hung up?
What happens is that the Full System Restore Wizard reports that it cannot find the server. It then offers an option to either search again or
to manually enter an IP address. When I enter an IP address manually, that's when the "Unknown Network Error" occurs. Note that repeated searches don't help. The Wizard never finds the server. See below where I give the full sequence of events.
When run Full System Restore Wizard, please ping the server with server name and IP address from the client computer. Any find?I
don't know that this is possible. At the point when the wizard is running, it's running under a downloaded image from the server (i.e. there IS connectivity to the server), but there's no OS to go to for the ping command. (If you know of a way to do that,
please let me know and I will try it).
The sequence of events is:
The client computer is set up to boot via PXE over the network.
The client computer receives a small net boot file. A text screen which offers the option to select either an x86 or X64 Full System Restore (I've tried both - doesn't make any difference). 
Selecting one of the option results in another file downloaded from the server. Control is transferred to this file, and the display goes into graphical mode.
A dialog box pops up allowing one to select language. Once that is selected, another window opens that shows progress. At some point in this process, the program indicates that it cannot find network drivers, and they need to be loaded via USB. (Note that,
as a test, I've actually used WDS to load drivers into the image that was downloaded at this point - but it still claims it cannot find network drivers).
A dialog box opens giving the opportunity to click to load drivers.
I click the button. Another dialog opens and tells me to insert a USB key with drivers on it.
I insert a USB key with network drivers. Click the button that says scan for network drivers.
After a few seconds, the drivers are found and a dialog reports that fact.
At that point, the window that appears is the Full System Restore Wizard. It asks to click "Next" to search for Windows Servers.
When I click next, the cursor changes to a "waiting" cursor for about 30 seconds, while presumably the wizard is searching for servers. (Note that the machine just completed downloading at least two files from that very server).
After some time elapses, a dialog appears indicating that the server couldn't be found. It offers two options, "Search Again", or manually enter a server name or IP.
Searching again has the same results. Manually entering an IP or server name results in the "Unknown Network Error" I've referred to.
At this point, you cannot proceed further. Clicking "Next" causes the network error message to come back again. Clicking "Cancel" drops you out of the wizard and the computer reboots.
Please check those log files which were modified when run the Full System Restore Wizard.
I will try this again when I arrive home tonight and examine the logs.
Thanks,
Jeff