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    Unfortunately the integrated Intel gigabit NIC on my Intel DP35DP motherboard is not supported in the WHS RestoreCD image.

    In addition no amount of fiddling with putting drivers from the "Windows Home Server Drivers for Restore" directory onto a USB drive and adding them during the restore process works.

    I need to consider a alternative recovery strategy.

    Can anyone point me at a list of supported NIC drivers for the Restore Image disk?

    thanks

    Paul 
    Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:20 PM

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    Hi Paul,
    I am not sure, if such a list exists, since the recovery environment matches the basic capabilities of Vista 32 Bit without additional or downloaded drivers.
    The alternative way would be following, if you have a second PC with installed connector and are capable to deal with hardware:

    • detach the disk from the PC you wish to restore
    • attach it to the second PC as a secondary drive (either by connecting to an internal port or with an USB to SATA/IDE connector)
    • boot that PC up 
    • restore the disk by running ClientRestoreWizard.exe, which can be found in Program Files\Windows Home Server on the client PC.
      (Be carefull here with the selection of the target disk to not overwrite the wrong disk with the backup from the PC, which you wish to restore!)
    • After completing the restore put the disk back into the original PC.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf

    Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:47 PM
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    Hi Paul,
    I am not sure, if such a list exists, since the recovery environment matches the basic capabilities of Vista 32 Bit without additional or downloaded drivers.
    The alternative way would be following, if you have a second PC with installed connector and are capable to deal with hardware:

    • detach the disk from the PC you wish to restore
    • attach it to the second PC as a secondary drive (either by connecting to an internal port or with an USB to SATA/IDE connector)
    • boot that PC up 
    • restore the disk by running ClientRestoreWizard.exe, which can be found in Program Files\Windows Home Server on the client PC.
      (Be carefull here with the selection of the target disk to not overwrite the wrong disk with the backup from the PC, which you wish to restore!)
    • After completing the restore put the disk back into the original PC.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf

    Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:47 PM
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    Paul, you also might want to (if you haven't already done this) is download and install the latest version of the Restore CD, which you can get from here.
    This does install a little oddly:
    Download it to your desktop.  Copy it to a share on the WHS.
    Remote desktop into the WHS, copy the file from the share to your WHS desktop.  Run.
    Once it's installed, it'll dump an ISO of the new restore disc to \\server\software\home PC restore cd.
    Burn that image with your favorite disc-mastering app.

    HTH,
    Chris
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    Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:35 PM
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    Chris

    The link you provide does not seem to work for me - takes me to a microsoft search page where nothing is found?  Any chance it may be wrong?

    thanks

    Paul
    Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:16 PM
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     Chris

    Thanks for that.

    Thru trial and error I managed to work your link out.  Unfortunately that image is the image I downloaded and used yesterday.

    Definitely did not work.

    Will give Olafs suggestion a whirl.

    regards

    Paul
    Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:29 PM
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    Sorry - issue with the forum and certain URLs.
    Copy and paste:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26881305-91CC-4F37-B1FC-3813C423DF2C&displaylang=en

    HTH,
    Chris
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    Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:05 PM