Windows Home Server 2011 Restore Cd Iso

| 16-09-2021
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As for a copy of Windows Home Server, given it's end of life you won't find it on any MS servers. Some-one with an Action Pack or MSDN subscription might be able to provide and ISO image but it might also have been removed from those programs as well given it's age. Start server Recovery software on PC from 'Server Recovery' CD. Reboot Server and go into recovery mode. (Use paper clip to press button on front panel of server within 4 seconds or so of powering it up.) The PC should find the server.

Using the ISO files to create a CD/DVD from MSDN called: Client Restore Disc: Windows Home Server 2011 (x86 and x64) - CD (English). To begin the restore, connect a Windows Server 2012 setup DVD or.ISO file image to the VM, start the VM and Press any key to boot from CD or DVD. If the backup is on a different medium than a VHD.

Why create a system image backup for Windows Server 2011?

Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 and Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 is very popularbecause of the good properties. People use Windows server 2011 and store many important dataon the hard drive. However, people still worry about data’s safety. After all, systemcrashes will bring a lot of troubles like losing data, reinstalling system, and many otherproblems which can bring a damage to your home workstation or your small business. Toprotect the system from those trouble, the best way is creating a system image backup forWindows Server 2011.

How to create a system image backup for Windows Server 2011?

Both WHS 2011 and SBS 2011 built-in backup tool Windows Server Backup can create a systemimage backup. Open the Windows Server Backup, you can see there are two kinds of backup“Backup Schedule...” and “Backup Once...”.

However, when you use the tool to create a system image backup for Windows Server 2011, youmay fail with some error code, for example:

  • SBS 2011 backups failing- VSS Error 0x800423F3- Event ID 8230

  • WHS 2011- backup failed, unable to create a volume snapshot

What’s more, this tool cannot compress the system image. If the image is too big, it willoccupy a large space on the destination place. If you want to fix those error and make asmaller image file with simple steps, here we highly recommend you a serverbackup software AOMEI Backupper Server, a backup software that can help you create asystem image backup for Windows Server 2011 (both WHS 2011 and SBS 2011) with compression ina few clicks.

Step1. Install and launch this software, and you can see its deep-blueinterface. Click Backup at the left pane, and select SystemBackup.

Step2. Then, it will show you the page where you can create a system imagebackup for SBS 2011. The System Backup will select the system files in default, and all youhave to do is clicking Step2, and select a destination partition to storeyour system image files. You can select another local partition, or an external hard drive,or share on NAS (network attach storage) according to your requirements. Here takes D: asthe destination place.

Windows Home Server 2011 Download Iso

Tips: if you need to compress the system image to make a smaller one,clickSettings, select Compression. You can compress yoursystem image file according to your requirements, but here we recommend you select Normal.

Step3. After all the settings, clickOK to back to thesystem backup page, and click Start Backup to launch the progress. Waittill it reaches 100%, click Finish to exit.

Windows Home Server 2011 Update

Comparing with Windows built-in backup tool, this software can fix almost all the backupproblems for both Windows Home server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011. Besidescreating a system image backup, you can use it to restore system for Windows server 2011,backup files/folders, sync files and many other things. It is worth to have one.

I recently had a nasty brush with Intel's SSD caching dropping a drive after a firmware upgrade, requiring me to recreate my 3 drive RAID0 array, restore from my last backup, then turn on SSD caching again in the Intel Rapid Storage Technology UI. Oh well, that's why I have backups:

So I dug up my restore DVD to recover, only to be greeted by this nasty error that I also get on my ThinkPad W520, so I was motivated and determined to get to the bottom of this problem. Previously, I had only been bitten by this bug when using USB boot devices. Apparently, this issue was now happening when booting from CD/DVD as well only because I had just updated gZilla's UEFI BIOS to 2.10 (previous restores earlier this year using DVD worked fine). So that left me fresh out of ways to get this system restored easily, not without solving this problem first anyway.

The error I got is shown here:

RestoreCDInit..exe - Application Error

The exception Cannot Continue
Windows cannot continue from this exception.
(0xc0000025) occurred in the application at location 0xff21b477.

Click on OK to terminate the program

The location number 0xff21b477 will likely vary. For example, this user reported location 0xff43b477 in this article:

Failing full client restore (CD or USB key), RestoreCDInit.exe - Application Error, 0xc0000025 at location 0xff43b477
social.microsoft.com/Forums/is/whs2011/thread/14f0a649-e9e9-4b79-a767-c850b773d117

but instead, I sometimes see location 0x00680229 when trying to boot from either the:

Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials recovery CD/DVD or USB key, from either:

  1. using the Dashboard, Additional client computer backup tasks, Tools tab, Computer recovery 'Create key...' Use a computer recovery key to restore a client computer from an existing backup
Restore

2. using the ISO files to create a CD/DVD from MSDN called:

Client Restore Disc: Windows Home Server 2011 (x86 and x64) - CD (English)
en_client_restore_disc_windows_home_server_2011_x86_x64_cd_658475.iso

or

Windows Home Server Connector

Client Restore Disc: Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials (x86 and x64) - CD (English)
en_client_restore_disc_windows_storage_server_2008_r2_essentials_x86_x64_cd_658474.iso

So what is the workaround?

Simple, just override the default boot for that recovery boot, choosing the UEFI version of the USB key at boot time (as richsmif concludes in the Microsoft discussion, thank you richsmif!)

What does this look like?

Screenshots below! These examples are likely applicable to many other modern/UEFI enabled systems as well:

Windows Home Server 2011 Restore Cd Iso Bootable

On a Lenovo ThinkPad like tZilla, press F12 at boot time, and there is no UEFI USB option presented, but if you avoid any USB hubsor docking ports, and plug directly into a USB 2 port, you should be able to avoid the error

Windows Home Server Torrent

On an ASRock mobo system like gZilla, press F11 at boot time, and select the UEFI FLASH Drive device

see also screenshots below for an example

August 12 2012 Update:

On an ancient laptop, an IBM ThinkPad T30, I discovered that the RestoreCDInit.exe error is unavoidable with USB version of restore CD for Windows Home Server 2011, but works fine with the CD/DVD version. Give it a shot, and comment if it works for you too!