old logical partitions from the replacement drives for the operating system. See the online help in the Smart
Storage Administrator on how to remove array logical partitions.
WARNING:
If restoring to a system that shares data and OS partition on the same drives then do not remove any
partitions since this would put your data at risk of loss or corruption.
Using the System Recovery DVD to save system data
Boot the System Recovery DVD and when prompted, select Windows Recovery Environment. Perform the
following steps:
1.
Select the keyboard layout.
2.
Select
Troubleshoot
>
Advanced Options
>
Command Prompt
.
3.
Enter
WPEINIT
and wait for approximately ten seconds before proceeding.
4.
Enter
IPCONFIG
at the command prompt to confirm that the network interface has an IP address.
NOTE:
• If your network is not using DHCP, manually assign the IP address and DNS information. The following
are some examples of the commands for manually assigning an IP address:
◦ netsh interface ip set address "connection name" static 192.168.0.101 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1
◦ netsh interface ip add dns "connection name" 208.67.222.222
◦ netsh interface ip add dns "connection name" 208.67.220.220 index=2
For more information on using the netsh command, go to https://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/
bb490943.aspx.
• Starting the network might take some time. Continue to the next step only after a valid IP address is
assigned to the network interface.
5.
Enter NET USE Z: \\servername\sharename at the command prompt, where \\servername\sharename is
the UNC path to a network share where the data will be copied.
6.
If prompted, enter the username and password for the share that you are accessing.
When the share is mapped to
Z: drive
, use Robocopy to copy files from the system to the network share. For
Drive letters are not assigned after a restore to Data Volumes
When a system that has existing data volumes (non-operating system volumes) is restored using the System
Recovery DVD, the data volumes will not have drive letters assigned to them. This is by design. The volume
labels are retained and can be used to identify the data volumes.
You can assign drive letters to volumes using diskpart.exe or Disk Management. Follow the steps for using
disk management:
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