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    Not a complaint since its logical, just information for those who may not already know. 

    A 1TB drive failed in one of my clients and since I was using less than 25% of the disk and had a spare 750GB on hand I went for it....not allowed.  WHS2011 will not allow bare metal restore to any disk thats even 1 byte smaller than the one backed up....talking disk capacity, not data actually backed up. 

    I put in another 1TB (previously used) disk, refromatted it, but still no go as it was 1 byte shy.  I had to delete the partition and reinitialize the disk as a simple volume to get the 1 byte back then all worked as it should. 

    Again just an information post to prevent anyone from wasting a bit of time as I did.

    ...JJC...
    • Changed type Ken Warren Friday, October 21, 2011 1:07 AM not a question
    Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:35 PM

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    A search in the forums would have located this information for you, as it's a limitation that's been known for a very long time.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Friday, October 21, 2011 1:07 AM