There is no guarantee you will be able to use the server recovery option successfully, having resized your partitions. You can certainly try, since at worst you don't get that option when asked what kind of installation you want at the beginning of setup. But assuming you don't have the option, the best course to move forward is probably this:
- Buy one additional drive, the same size as (or larger than) the largest drive in your current server.
- Do a new install on just that drive. (I.e. remove all other drives from your server.)
- Complete the server Out Of Box Experience, either by running the setup at the end directly on the server or by installing from the Connector installation CD on a computer you want as a client.
- Connect one of your server's old drives (I would start with the 1 TB drive) to a computer on your network. Copy everything you find in <driveletter>:\DE\Shares\etc. to your server's shares.
- Add that drive to your server's storage pool. The drive will be formatted when you do this, so anything left on it will be lost at that point. Note: for your old system drive, you should use partition management software (such as diskpart) to completely clean the drive off before attaching it to your server. Never attach an old Windows Home Server system drive to another installation of Windows Home Server.
- Proceed to the next drive, and do the same thing.
The easiest thing to do with backups it to abandon the current backup database. (Given that you're seeing errors related to backup on your server now, you might not have a choice.) If you decide you'd like to try to keep your current database, you'll need to follow the instructions in
this technical brief describing how to copy the backup database form one computer to another. You'll need to modify the procedure set out there by copying from each of your drives individually (with the backup services shut down). The location you'll copy from is <driveletter>:\DE\Folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4}. Given you're seeing errors about backup now, I can't guarantee you'll be able to recover your database this way, I'm afraid.
Once you've got all your old drives added to your server, you should be able to turn duplication back on for shares that need it.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
