- #Replacing drive windows 2011 home server drivers#
- #Replacing drive windows 2011 home server windows#
#Replacing drive windows 2011 home server drivers#
During backup an unambiguously named folder called "\Windows Home Server Drivers for Restore" is made that is full of directories with storage and network drivers from your computer.
#Replacing drive windows 2011 home server windows#
This is cool in its own right, as Windows will mount the backup as a new drive and you can copy files off it. The instructions say just open the backup from the Home Server Console. Well, there's actually a very helpful link right in the Restore Wizard that says Windows Home Server includes all the network and storage drivers from the backed-up machine at the time of the backup in a automatically-created folder that lives in the backup itself. I'm going through the restore process and it says I haven't got network drivers installed. On another computer I visit \\SERVER\Software and burn the Home Server Recovery CD in a few minutes, then boot off that CD on Uncle Ronnie's machine. Then I swap the dead hard drive out for the new one. Remember this point as it's significant for later.
He's running Windows XP but uses dial-up for his internet access. This backs up the entire machine to the Home Server.
I run chkdsk /f /r 4 times until it works and then quickly (don't make it angry, I say) hooked Uncle Ronnie's machine up to my Windows Home Server via it's wireless adapter and did a complete "one click" backup. The old hard drive is clicking and unhealthy, but after a dozen tries, I get it to boot off the sick drive. It was under warranty and Dell had a new hard drive mailed to me within days. Recently Uncle Ronnie's new Dell computer had a hard drive die.
I've blogged about Windows Home Server before.
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