System Recovery 2011(Recovery Disk for 64bit system).

Hi

You may not have backed up the hidden partition "System Reserved" which holds the boot files
Suggest him to backup the system reserverd and OS partition (C drive) and redo the restore as per
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH129112
 

Hope that helps

Thanks

Hi,

The system contents no "Reserved Partition" mostly its 100MB partition, but I haven't found any such partition.

Now I have tried with SR 2013 for the restoration and it was happaning but its was asking for the NIC card drivers(99% of the completation), where I haven't selected "Prompt for drivers" from the menu accesed by pressing "Alt+Shift" and clicking the " restore to different hardware".

When I am triying to provide the NIC card driver of that system it took 2 hrs and finally I cancelled it.

I have tried to restore the image by ignoring this drivers installation. Its have successfully completed the restoration . When the system boot to HDD its gave the error- "BOOTMGR CAN NOT FOUND. PRESS ATL-CTRL-DEL TO RESTART".

I have tried to repair the system using the OS DVD but its not done. The OS DVD boot but when I clicked the "Repair the System" its was unable to sense the operating System in the HDD.

More over I have tried on my system using the VMware Workstation but same.. It again asked for drivers ( I used to know that VMware NIC drivers were always there as its general NIC card used). But there its result same as mentioned above error while booting.

Any help....

Thanks

Hi,

Can you please confirm if BCD partition exists using Diskmgmt.msc command as its created by default while installation of Windows 2008 R2 OS with default settings?

The bootmgr missing error occurs if it fails to locate the windows boot files in bcd.

-Thanks,

Pravin

Hi,

Sorry for late response.....

I have checked the SR 2011 and found that the "EFI System Reserved Partition" was unable to detect by the SR 2011. But backup was successful for all other drives.

I have tried using SR 2013 and found that its was able to take backup that EFI system reserverd partition.

We have done the backup using the same.

Now, we have used a desktop system (Gigabyte motherboard).

After successful restore it gave the error (restore done one by one firts "System reserverd partition" and then C Drive)-

"windows failes to start . Arecent hardware or Software change might be the cause to fix the problem ...."

So , now what could be problem.....

Any Idea guys.

What is the status code in the message? Is this same as http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH160475?

Hi,

As per the the below link:-

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH160475

I have tried to do the troublshooting.

As per the KB article we required to edit the "boot" information using the "bcdedit" command.

The command executed with error as "can not find the boot information".

I guess the boot information is not there or this files does not exist.

Any more ideas guys.

Now, I am simulating the same thing in my virtual server.

Thanks.

Hi,

Unable to restore using the SR 2013 in a EFI based server.

Looking for any compatability issue or not.....

Thanks.

Hi,

Please check my reply to your another post of ESXi 5.0 support.

-Thanks,

Pravin

Hi,

Pravin: I got it....

Downloading the updates....

Thanks.

Hi,

Done..

I have successfully restored the Win 2008 R2 (EFI enabled BIOS) after upgrading the ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.0 Update 4.

Now, I need to check this in the physical server.......

Just to add the compatability list in SR 2011 document haven't mentioned that the Windows 2008 R2 where UFI/EFI enabled BIOS will not be supported. Neither there is no update that the System Recovery Disk 2011 uses Windows PE 2, which is also not supported in 64bit Env.

Thanks.