Backup warning about "new hard drive" after reformat.

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  I recently reformatted my PC to upgrade from Win7 RC to RTM and the WHS connector now displays a backup warning that "HOSTNAME has a new hard drive. From the Windows Home Server Console, select HOSTNAME and client Configure Backup to choose which hard-drive volumes to back up."
  
  Where HOSTNAME is the one of my newly reformatted laptop...
  
  This is a laptop with one drive in it that has two partitions- the 100MB "System Reserve" partition Win7 created (which I left unchecked for the backup) and the C:\ drive which I have checked. I have no other USB drives or anything else plugged into the laptop.
  
  Any thoughts on how to get rid of this message?
  
  Thanks!

  Did you do an upgrade install of 7 (which is unsupported going from RC to RTM), or a clean install of RTM?  Also, you can try backing up the 100 MB System Reserved partition in addition to the regular C partition (it worked for me when I backed up everything, including the 100 MB partition).
  

  Sunday, October 18, 2009 12:44 AM

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  I got it figured out. It was referring to the old image of my laptop before the upgrade. As soon as I turned off backups for it the warning went away.
  
  

  • Marked as answer by kariya21Moderator Sunday, October 18, 2009 2:21 AM

  Sunday, October 18, 2009 1:22 AM