When performing a WHS recovery the "Warning" message that comes up states that "You will lose system setting on your Server, including server name, user accounts, etc." Does this mean that I will also lose files that were saved directly on the server under particular user accounts? Or does it keep the files somewhere else and just delete the accounts?
I assume you have a pre-built server from HP? If so, when you do a Server Recovery, it wipes the user accounts, but not the data.
Also, how would I go about hooking the WHS up to a monitor so I can see what exactly it is doing?
If you built it yourself, you should already have a connection for the monitor on the hardware. The pre-built servers from HP, Acer, etc. are not allowed to have monitor connections.
I've got a Dell optiplex monitor, but the server has nothing more than USB ports for connections. I understand that this is supposed to be a "headless" system, but I have lost the ability to access it through both the Home Server Console and RDC, most likely due to loading McAfee Total Protection Service (because it told me my 7 month free trial was over and suggested I should purchase a new license - from everything I have read, installing McAfee may have been a bad thing to do). If I could hook up a monitor maybe I would be able to actually login and remove McAfee rather than going through with a recovery. I *really* don't want to lose my data.
As long as you do a Server Recovery, you shouldn't have any problems. (Just don't do a Factory Reset.)
