Diskpart Does Not See Volumes on OEM Partitions

July 3, 2010, 10:28 pm

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As I worked today on recreating a Dell Utility Partition, I encountered this factoid:  Diskpart, when run inside Windows, does not see volumes on OEM partitions. If you run diskpart ...

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Re-Create Dell Utility Partition after Windows Server 2008 Bare Metal Restore

July 3, 2010, 11:10 pm

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So you’ve used Windows Server 2008 bare metal restore and it wiped out your Dell Utility Partition. What to do? Background:  I’m setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine ...

Restore a Hyper-V Server to an Optiplex 960

January 7, 2011, 6:00 pm

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Recently I upgraded a small server to run Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Hyper-V host, with Server 2008 R2 as a guest as well. I’ve read that Windows Server ...

Restore a Hyper-V Server to an Optiplex 960, Take 2

March 12, 2012, 2:17 pm

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In January 2011, I wrote about my experience restoring a Hyper-V Server to an Optiplex 960. That article is exhaustive (and exhausting). I’ve done the same test again and wanted ...

Restore a Hyper-V Server to an Optiplex 960, Take 3

April 6, 2013, 6:34 pm

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This is the third in the series of almost annual articles about my experiences testing a Hyper-V restore. I’ve done this successfully in 2011 and 2012. Why repeat? To make ...

Restore Server 2012 R2 to a ThinkCentre M93p Desktop

January 24, 2014, 10:04 am

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There are several differences since the last time I did a disaster recovery restore test. The server is now a Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials on ...

Restore Server 2012 R2 to a ThinkCentre M93p Desktop, Take 2

February 6, 2015, 7:03 pm

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Time for my annual test of restoring a server to a desktop. This year is almost identical to last year, but I want to have one list of steps, so ...

Restore Server 2012 R2 to a ThinkCentre M93p Desktop, Take 3

February 16, 2016, 12:45 pm

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Once a year, I test restoring a server to a desktop. The server is backed up with standard Windows Backup. The idea is to confirm that if the server went ...

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Restore Server to Desktop – 2017 Edition

March 23, 2017, 8:45 pm

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Once a year, I test restoring a server to a desktop. The server is backed up with standard Windows Backup. The idea is to confirm that if the server went ...