Hello,
I had a dell server running 2008 server sp2 that we were using as a file share. It really doesn???t have a whole lot within those shares. The server was running with two drives in a raid 1 setup, and took a whole backup using the server 2008 backup utility every night. The server itself has died, but I happen to have a server very similar in hardware to swap it out with. It only has one drive, so non raid setup. I have the server 2008 backup on an external drive and booting to server 2008 setup using a thumb drive. When I boot the new server up with the thumb drive, I am able to get to ???Complete PC Restore??? however it looks like it always reads my thumb drive as the C drive, so when trying to restore from the back up on the external hard drive, it fails because the thumb drive is seen as the c drive and its 8GB. Is it best practice to boot from the server 2008 cd to do a complete restore. Can you restore a complete backup even if the raid config isn???t the same, obviously as long as the new hard drive as big as the previous. Thanks in advance for any help???
