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WHS – Server Recovery

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I’m not sure if I have posted how much I like Windows Home Server…

Last week I was having trouble with the OS, easy fix I figured. Drop the DVD in, run the upgrade install and everything is back to normal. One problem, the disk I was using had a CRC error and failed half way through the install.

Burning another install disk, I ran the setup again only to find that it could not detect the failed install and only gave me the option to format all my disks and start from scratch again. Sure I could move my data off the system disk and go through the painful process of importing all my media again, but then I would also lose my PC backups and stuff. What to do??

Long story short, I fired up a copy of ghost and imaged the 30GB D:\ partition from my system disk onto another drive. Disconnected all drives apart from the system disk and ran the clean install. Once that had finished, plugged back in the disks,  restored the original D:\ partition from ghost and ran the upgrade install again.

Once again I have a clean updated server with all my previous PC backups.

WHS ROCKS!!!