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Dell Blade PowerEdge M610 - Acronis Imaging - Booting Windows Server 2003 R2 x64

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Hello,

I have two Dell PowerEdge M610 running in a Blade Chassis. The Chassis is connected via FC with a Dell/EMC SAN. Each M610 has local drives that are configured to a RAID1 virtual drive. The Windows Server installation was not done using a Dell OEM Kit. There is only one system drive and no other partitions, for example the Dell partitions.

I want to create a image from the M610 and restore it on the other M610. During the personalisation i get two read errors at the start of the backup procedure. See log the attached.
I can restore the image without errors. When booting the just restored M610 the boot sequence stops right after the initialization of the iDRAC6 card during the POST.

The strange thing is:

1. When i insert a USB stick with GRUB4DOS and tell GRUB to start from the first HDD partition, the Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 starts just fine.

2. I can restore the image to vmware workstation and have been able to startup the restored system inside the VM. Therefore there are no issues with the image.

Any Ideas regarding the read errors and how to convince the server to boot my restored image?

Thanks!

Best, René

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Hello Rene,

Thank you for your message. I will do my best to help you.

It is possible there are errors on the disk that you backed up because there are several 'failed to read from sector' messages in the log file that you kindly provided. I would recommend to run chkdsk with the /r parameter on it, re-create the backup and try restoring one more time, if possible.

If not, try fixing the master boot record on your target drive, its possible it got corrupted.

If it does not help, could you get back to us or contact our Support team with these reports:

1. Acronis report from the source hard drive.

2. Acronis report 51 from the target drive.

Looking forward to your reply and if you have additional questions please let me know.

Thank you.