Server 2008 Restore

Ok so here is my situation.
I have a Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and I have performed a Full System backup using the Server Backup feature. Originally the drives were on a 72GB hard drives RAID 1 and I want to upgrade them to 300GB Hard Drive. So I decided that I would just backup
and restore onto the 300GB Hard Drive. But when I try to perform the server 2008 recovery, it will not recognize the backup on the external hard drive at all. It wont even show up in the list. But if I go searching for drivers it shows up
just fine in the drive list. So what am I missing?

Hi,
You need to use diskpart to create and format partitions before you restore the backup to the 300GB Hard Drive.
For more detailed information, please see:
System Image file won't restore on newly created RAID mirror
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/system-image-file-wont-restore-on-newly-created/9a968d83-ca5a-4a71-85e2-a013d209c713
Use Diskpart to Create and Format Partitions
http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine/post/2009/11/05/Use-Diskpart-to-Create-and-Format-Partitions.aspx
Please Note: Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. The sites are not controlled by Microsoft. Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there.
Best Regards,
Mandy
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Hi,
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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11093, you are currently running the RTM and the backup was from Version 10.50.4000 and your attempting to restore to version 10.00.1600.
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Reference:
http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177512.aspx
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How to restore SQL Server 2008 database to SQL Server Express 2012.
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Dear all,
I am experiencing a problem with "Windows Server 2008 R2", using Windows Server Backup.
Here's my setup:
Server: RAID 5 Disk setup
Backup:
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Restore:
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Since Windows Server Backup is using "Volume Shadow Copy" technology which enables "live backup" of the running system, is it possible that some files will disappear (=restore error) after
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Thank you for your reply, Ms. Mandy.
To make things clear, let me explain to you briefly:
1. The "missing data" was backed up with "full system backup".
2. After a system restore from the above backup image, as you mentioned, partitions has been overwritten with the partions' backup data in the Backup Data Set taken by Windows Server Backup. No error with backup. No error after restore, and reboot - system
has been running fine.
3. Although there was a report that the affected files(about 7 java exectables) were missing after the above restore operation, other aspect of system was running fine at the time of the report.
4. I have checked the original backup data set - and voila, there ARE files which seems to gone after restore.
5. When I used Windows Server Backup "on" Windows Server 2008 R2 normal environment (= NOT Recovery environment from DVD) and selectd ONLY these affected files to restore, these files could be RESTORED successfully, without any errors. SO... data
was property backed up.
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions so files created after the backup point will be missing.
I understand, and this is not the case this time, because the affected files are already present in the backup data set (= I have mounted the backup data as VHD, and I could clearly see them present in the mounted VHD file)
Plus, these files are completely restoreable via "selective file restore" in Windows Server Backup.
Things I want to know/confirm:
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions
If I understand this correctly, in case that the files in question are already present in the backup data set, these files SHOULD be restored after full system restore, right? (If these files could not be restored, Windows Server Backup SHOULD show some errors.)
What do you think, Ms. Mandy? :)
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How to create restore point in windows server 2008 service pack1

hi i am bhaskar ... how to create restore point in windows server 2008 service pack1 and how to restore system from a restore point in windows server 2008 service pack1.. is this option available or not ? what is the difference between shadow copies and
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AFIK, Restore Points doesn’t exist in Windows 2008.
Volume Shadow Copy option can be used to achieve:
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Windows Server 2008 bare-metal restore

Hello
We have been running a Windows Server 2008 Standard on an old HP ML350 server for many years. The old server finally kicked the bucket so we performed a bare-metal restore (using the Windows built-in restore from backup function) to a new (used) HP
DL380 G6 server... the restore worked perfectly. The new server came right up and everything is working just as it was on the old server except for one major problem. The new server won't activate.
We used the Automated phone line activation utility but after putting in the zillion character installation id, the phone activation voice says the product is invalid and hangs up on me. We tried the "buy a new product key" option that the
Windows Activation utility on the server offers as an option but when we get to the website it says the product is no longer available.
We have the original case and media that we purchased many years ago and the Product Key is on the card that came with the disk (actually 2 discs 32 and 64 bit versions).
What can we do at this point? We don't want to purchase another copy of Windows Server 2008 for fear we will just run into the same problem. The product we have is valid and has been running on our old server for many years. We can't upgrade
to Server 2012 because we believe that 2012 only supports 64 bit versions and we must stay on a 32 bit platform so that existing (and irreplaceable) applications will continue to run.
Any suggestions?

Thank you for your reply.
After trying several Microsoft remedies that did not resolve the problem we decided to just buy another copy of Windows Server 2008. We then used the option to change the product Id to the new key that came with the new copy (sealed container) of Windows
2008 Server, but after doing so we are still unable to activate the product and in fact we are no longer even given the option to Activate... our desktop is black and there is a message in the lower right corner of the screen that says this copy of Windows
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*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)
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present for a while.
The virtual disk I'm trying to restore to is several GBs larger than the original virtual disk on the RAID controller (2 disks in RAID 1).
I can't figure out why the server isn't booting. I've successfully restored Server 2008 machines from physical machines to VMs before, including servers using hardware RAID cards (e.g. Dell SAS 6/iR). The only difference I can think of is
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Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it's to point out that I'm looking in the wrong direction.
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Hi MailStane,
Sorry for the long delay in getting time to test this, been flat out but got a chance today to rigorously run through some scenarios - and I'm absolutely thrilled to confirm we have a solution!!! :¬) At long last, thank you immensely for your post
and the original link - the steps above alone didn't work so I kept testing and and with the help of the link you gave modified the process a bit, and here's the the final working solution (all of this works for Windows 7 as well):
After completing the BMR process don't restart.
Select Command Prompt.
regedt32<CR>
Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, File>Load Hive>[restored volume]:\Windows\System32\Config\SYSTEM>Open>Key Name = Restored_HKLM>OK.
Expand Restored_HKLM\ControlSet001\services and ensure the following are set:
  If restored to a (VMWare) VM then ensure intelide>Start = 0 and LSI_SAS>Start = 0; msahci>Start = 3 and pciide>Start = 3
  NB: I have only tested this with VMWare VMs (Player/Workstation and vSphere) but will likely translate across to Microsoft (e.g. HyperV) VMs. The LSI_SAS value is definitely required, I couldn't boot in a VM until this was chaned to 0.
Or if restoring to a physical machine with native HDD controller
then ensure msahci>Start = 0 and pciide>Start = 0; intelide>Start = 3 and LSI_SAS>Start = 3
Highlight Restored_HKLM and then File>Unload Hive.
Close windows and restart.
You should now have a successfully booting restored Server 2008 R2! :¬)
(Remember if it's a new add-in RAID card and you supply the drivers it will successfully inject them into the restored OS - see previous posts in this thread)
NB: Don't worry if you have restarted without making the changes and it Blue Screens, come back through these options and if set correctly it will boot normally - nothing is damaged by the Stop Error, and the ide settings can be turned on and off with no
permanent effect on the OS. I.e. change and restart until you hit the right combination required - I've tested this copious times and when changed back to the correct settings the OS boots again without issue.
If in doubt, turn on all possible required services e.g. set both intelide = 0/pciide = 0 and msahci = 0, or set all of these to 0 and it will still boot with the correct driver/s:
   aliide, amdide, atapi, cmdide, iastorv, intelide, msahci, pciide, viaide and LSI_SAS.
I don't recommend this due to the overheads it could introduce, but it will work and will get the machine up as quickly as possible if confidence in the exact combination required is in doubt.
Settings for typical destination machines - skip if desired:
VMWare VM:
aliide 3
amdide 3
atapi 0
cmdide 3
iastorv 3
intelide 0
msahci 3
pciide 3
viaide 3
LSI_SAS 0
Dell PE2970 physical machine with RAID card:
aliide 3
amdide 3
atapi 0
cmdide 3
iastorv 3
intelide 3
msahci 0
pciide 3
viaide 3
LSI_SAS 3
Dell PET100 physical machine on native SATA adapter:
aliide 3
amdide 3
atapi 0
cmdide 3
iastorv 3
intelide 3
msahci 0
pciide 0
viaide 3
LSI_SAS 3
Win 7 64x custom built physical machine on native SATA adapter:
aliide 3
amdide 3
atapi 0
cmdide 3
iastorv 3
intelide 3
msahci 0
pciide 0
viaide 3
LSI_SAS 3
KEY FOR SERVICE START VALUES:
0 = ?
1 = ?
2 = Automatic
with DelayedAutostart = 1 = Automatic (Delayed Start)
3 = Manual
4 = Disabled
MailStane thank you once again for posting - it's helpded no end resolving a big bug bear with Server 2008 R2 and Win 7's backups, and while I'm still nonplussed at to why these manual steps are necessary when 2008/Vista worked flawlessly without intervention
(wondering if all the drivers are on by default but haven't checked it out yet), we now have a confirmed quick and viable fix.  Thanks for being generous enough to share and well done!
Vikas, thank you for at least giving us a look in when the rest of Microsoft refused. If you want to publicise this information feel free (any credit to MailStane and/or me I'm sure would be much appreciated) - it affects anyone
in a Server 2008 R2/Win 7 DR scenario where the original hardware can't be replaced or emergency measures dictate using whatever's available whether home or business, and as SCDPM 2007/2010 uses the built-in backup this procudure applies equally. On
another note, this has also again opened the doors (IMO) to DPM as a viable all round backup solution, as the one stop backup including system state restores is a big bonus over third party block based backup solutions that painlessly allow different hardware
restores for R2/Win 7 (personally tested) but do not allow for system state restores. Now if compression were included in an SP or the next version it will have reached that always elusive "ideal" ;¬).
RidvanSeber - if you're still having difficulty hope the steps above to load the restored Registry hive help.
Case closed.
Many thanks,
Chris

Restore bkf Backup Files on Tape with Windows Server 2008 R2

We have to migrate an application from a legacy server (OS Windows Server 2003) to a new server (OS Windows Server 2008 R2).
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We must be able to restore data from tapes of the last 10 years for audit purposes.
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