2009/09/04

Windows Home Server (Part II)

Last night I decided to try to do a restore on my Windows 7 laptop.

Here's how it's supposed to go:
1)  Boot from Restore CD
2)  The system will find your Home Server
3)  Choose the backup to restore
4)  Restore
5)  Done

Here's what really happened:

I booted from the Restore CD.  The system came up and said that it could load some drivers, but it wasn't able to discover any network drivers.  Since I'm restoring across the network, I need network drivers loaded.  The help file covers this.  It says that if you use a different computer to view the backup set that you want to restore, it has a bunch of drivers already set up for you.  All you do is copy those onto a USB drive, and then load them into the computer you want to restore to.  I did this, and it found SOME of the drivers, but not the network ones.

No network connection = no restore ability.

So I'm a little stuck.  I'm a little hopeful that Windows 7 isn't officially supported yet, and that the next update to WHS (Power Pack 3) will fix this problem.  But I'm pretty sure I've read other people doing Win7 restores, so it seems like it should have worked.  Blarg.

Anonymous, any ideas?  (Who knew, by the way, that I had so many (well, 2) WHS users reading this blog?!)


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Install the Powerpack 3 it supports W7, the drivers are on the root drive