How to do bare metal recovery of Windows 8/2012 from backup using Windows Recovery Environment
Hello everyone!
Sometimes ago I decided to check backup/restore functions of my system and found out some pitfalls I want to share with everyone.
So here is simple step by step instruction how to do bare metal recovery of your system from backup made by Windows backup solution.
Let’s assume that we already have a successful remote backup on network share.
0. We creating new virtual machine or physical server, configuring network, disks etc. powering it on with Windows installation media
1. Entering to recovery environment
2. Choose Advanced options
3. Choose System Image Recovery
4. System will scan your drives and found out no any systems images obviously… we pressing Cancel button
5. Go to Advanced… settings
6. Choosing Search for a system image on the network
7. Next it’s asking us if we are really want to connect to the Network, answering Yes
8.Looking good so far. Specifying the location of the system image backup
9. Entering credentials that has access rights to the specified share
10. And after a while we are getting “The network path was not found. (0×80070035)”
So the error is that for some reason Microsoft forgot to add network initialization and checking steps into this restore wizard. Or I missed something in config… anyway we have a workaround for this.
11. Let’s back to the step 3 where we were choosing system Image Recovery and now let’s choose Command prompt option
12. Initialization of network: do the wpeinit command
13 Configuring network interface using netsh command (netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”Local Area Connection” source=static address=192.168.0.5 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1)
14. Test your configuration with ping
15. Start restore wizard with command bmrui.exe
16. Repeat everything starting after step 3. above and you will get your system restored.
17. Celebrate!
Sometimes ago I decided to check backup/restore functions of my system and found out some pitfalls I want to share with everyone.
So here is simple step by step instruction how to do bare metal recovery of your system from backup made by Windows backup solution.
Let’s assume that we already have a successful remote backup on network share.
0. We creating new virtual machine or physical server, configuring network, disks etc. powering it on with Windows installation media
1. Entering to recovery environment
2. Choose Advanced options
3. Choose System Image Recovery
Advanced option
4. System will scan your drives and found out no any systems images obviously… we pressing Cancel button
Re-image Your Computer error
5. Go to Advanced… settings
Re-image Your computer advanced option button
6. Choosing Search for a system image on the network
Re-image Your computer network search
7. Next it’s asking us if we are really want to connect to the Network, answering Yes
Re-image Your computer network confirmation
8.Looking good so far. Specifying the location of the system image backup
Re-image Your computer network location
9. Entering credentials that has access rights to the specified share
10. And after a while we are getting “The network path was not found. (0×80070035)”
So the error is that for some reason Microsoft forgot to add network initialization and checking steps into this restore wizard. Or I missed something in config… anyway we have a workaround for this.
11. Let’s back to the step 3 where we were choosing system Image Recovery and now let’s choose Command prompt option
Re-image Your computer command prompt
12. Initialization of network: do the wpeinit command
13 Configuring network interface using netsh command (netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”Local Area Connection” source=static address=192.168.0.5 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1)
14. Test your configuration with ping
15. Start restore wizard with command bmrui.exe
16. Repeat everything starting after step 3. above and you will get your system restored.
17. Celebrate!
1 comment:
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