BE 2014 SDR Restore of Physical Server to VM with UEFI

[Peter_Sheridan]

Hello,

I am trying to restore a physical server that was running UEFI to a virtual machine, but when I try and run through the recovery process it doesn't autoconfigure the layout of the disks. 

I may need to create the UEFI System partition first...

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Thanks

Peter Sheridan

[Peter_Sheridan · Accepted solution]

I found the solution.

Backup Exec 2014 SDR uses a Windows Server 2012/R2 Environment. 

In my case I did the following to create a EFI Partition.

1. Booted the VM using a Server 2012 R2 DVD

2. Loaded into recovery mode

3. Opened a command prompt and opened DiskPart

4. The next few steps may vary but essentially what we are trying to acomplish is to create a EFI partition on the disk.

List Disk (Check to see what disks are available)

Select Disk 0 (Select the disk you are intending to restore the server onto)

Clean (Remove all existing partitions on the disk that may be created)

Convert GPT (EFI paritions require GPT I believe so change the format to that)

Create partition efi size=200 (Create the EFI partition. I'm not sure what size the partition should be but 200MB is what the previous one was)

List partition (Just double check to make sure it created the partition properly)

5. Shutdown the server and boot from the SDR disk again. This time it should successfully create the partition table.

As to why the SDR environment can't create the EFI parition itself, or be done through the Advance Disk Configuration Utility is unknown but this method seemed to work.