the hard drive died in my wifes laptop, no biggie. I replaced it and plugged in the usb dbd drive, installed the restore cd, booted up fine with over 500mb of memory. When it get to the finding server, it never finds it, and I renamed my server to MORPHEUS, so I type the in manually, then I get a network error has occurd. I have tried this with 2 different cd's, a new network cable and I even tried another port on my switch and still no joy.

Anyone have an ideas???

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EX485, 4gb ram
Intel® Pentium® Processor E5200 (2M Cache, 2.50 GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
4 1Tb drives
WHS 2011 64bit

EDITED: 8/12/11 (Removed the original comment about 32 bit drivers which is for WHS v1 only and not WHS2011)

When you run the PC Recovery CD you will see a prompt about loading drivers. If the NIC Driver is not loaded then you will never find the server. What I recommend you do is get the NIC driver for the laptop and then you should have better luck. Hope this makes sense.

Just to be on the safe side. Do you have server connectivity on your other computers? If the answer is yes then its the NIC driver and if not then we need to look at the server itself.

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Migrated from WHS2011 to WS2012E: HIGHLANDER

~ Norco 4220 Enclosure
~ Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
~ AMD Phenom II X4 995 3.2 GHz
~ 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
~ 3 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

>> Even if the computer is a 64 bit system and was running a 64 bit Windows OS you still need a 32bit NIC Driver because WHS and its supporting software is 32bit. Hope this makes sense.

Are you sure about that? This is for WHS 2011, right?

I think WHS 2011 restore asks you if you are restoring 32-bit or 64-bit at the very beginning of the restore process. This determines which OS actually boots for the restore. So, I think you want to find the appropriate drivers (as far as 32 vs 64) for your restore.

I could be all wet too... it has been a month or so since I tried this... and maybe I forgot what I did. But basically when I set my WHS 2011 server up, I went to each client and tried to start a restore... just to make sure I had drivers on my WHS 2011 restore thumb drive (I'd rather find the drivers now, when I'm not in emergency mode, than later...). I seem to recall it asking about 32 vs 64...

My Bad on that one I totally missed the the fact that this is posted in the WHS2011 forums. The driver issue is still the key to getting the recovery working and I will edit response to reflect the correction.

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Exploring the possibilities!

Migrated from WHS2011 to WS2012E: HIGHLANDER

~ Norco 4220 Enclosure
~ Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
~ AMD Phenom II X4 995 3.2 GHz
~ 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
~ 3 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8