- #WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 RECOVERY DRIVERS#
- #WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 RECOVERY UPDATE#
- #WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 RECOVERY SOFTWARE#
Be aware that using SATA drivers may require, to present these drivers a second time during setup using a floppy disk. In this case Windows Home Server setup can use built in drivers. If you are using SATA disks, it may be more convenient to select the IDE (ATA/PATA) mode in the settings of the SATA controller. The former or new system disk must always be detected as drive 0. If you get no server reinstall offered, this can depend from the sequence, in which the disks are detected by the Bios or which drivers are provided initially. This is necessary to eliminate potential bugs. Repeat this after necessary reboots, until you don't get new updates offered any more.
#WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 RECOVERY UPDATE#
( A new installation will wipe all drives, so be carefull, what you select.) Be patient, since rebuilding the tombstones can take a long time without clear information on the screen, what is going on.īefore adding the clients again and redo the configuration tasks, run Windows Update through the console first. This special installation mode will only wipe the system volume on C: (and with it all user accounts, customizations, installed Add-Ins and applications, applied updates), but leave the data intact. In case of unreadable sectors get a replacement disk.Īfter broken hardware is replaced, the next step would be to try a server reinstallation (which may be named different, if you got your Windows Home Server as an OEM product). If you find ntfs errors, double click them to see the details. In Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools click Event Viewer.Ĭheck the System and Application logs for errors (red marked) and warnings (yellow marked). Use the account name Administrator and the console password for login.
To do this, log in locally or via Remote Desktop client to the server desktop. If your Windows Home Server still boots, you can check the event log of the server for error details. Try to get the data out as described below. Recommended method: Data recovery has priority. The system disk is ok, but one or more data disks fail, or Windows Home Server Console reports disks as missing.If you can still access the DATA volume of the disk, proceed as described below to copy eventually stored files. Recommended method: Server Reinstall after replacing the disk. The system disk is broken, the data disks are ok.The system does not boot any more, but the disks are all ok.So these will often not be performed regulary. While it offers possibilities to backup the content of shared folders and even the client backups, these processes have to be done manually and need a lot of additional external storage space.
#WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 RECOVERY SOFTWARE#
Windows Home Server as the backend of a home network is not immune to hardware defects, bad drivers, misconfigurations, incompatible software installations or user errors. How To: Recover Data after Server failure