BSOD during recovery
Hello.
I am trying to apply an image of a server to another identical remote box. Once the agent reboots the system i am recovering to, this system crashed with a BSOD and an error saying something about "no RAID disk".
Can someone explain me please what is happening here? I have about 15 machines to recover this way.
Thank you.
I ended up building a bootable ISO but the keyboard and mouse do not get detected leaving the system useless.
Can somebody advise something please? I've been fighting with it the whole week, and I am yet to have any result.
Hello,
If the BSOD happens after recovery (and it is a 7b BSOD), there is probably a configuration difference between the disk driver on the source server and the target server.
For example, you would get this type of BSOD on many Windows 7 systems if you change the BIOS from AHCI to IDE or vice-versa. Even if the system is identical, the storage driver will be different depending on configuration.
In order to resolve this, it is possible to run a "Universal restore" operation, which will change the driver during restoration. This must be done from the bootable media.
If the default media doesn't work, as in your case, the best thing would be to try the latest build of the media. Our media is a custom Linux distributive with baked-in drivers for things like USB support. Since new hardware is constantly being released, we are constantly updating our media and its drivers. But this update cannot happen live for a media that is already burned to disk or USB, you have to either redownload the ISO that has the latest drivers or update your product build and recreate the media.
The other possibility is to create a Windows WinPE media. This creation will take the drivers used on your source system and include them in the WinPE media, meaning that you should have support for your USB peripherals if the servers are identical.