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after the restore, into a VM, have you tried a repair on the OS from the DVD.
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after the restore, into a VM, have you tried a repair on the OS from the DVD.

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Yes, it said that it couldn't repair the computer automatically, and that the &quot;problem signature07&quot; was &quot;BadDriver&quot;.
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Yes, it said that it couldn't repair the computer automatically, and that the "problem signature07" was "BadDriver".

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Hi all!<br />
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We've had a server crash with SBS2011, and need to do a restore to a VMware computer/image. We have a huge problem in finding similar hardware to restore/recover from Windows backup, so we have tried to restore to a VMWare machine. Of course it just boots into a bluescreen, because of the missing/different harddisk drivers in VMWare. Is it a way where we can install the drivers/convert the virtualized machine to start properly?<br />
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Of course this is urgent, as the customer is without their server for the moment...<br />
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Thanks!
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Hi all!

We've had a server crash with SBS2011, and need to do a restore to a VMware computer/image. We have a huge problem in finding similar hardware to restore/recover from Windows backup, so we have tried to restore to a VMWare machine. Of course it just boots into a bluescreen, because of the missing/different harddisk drivers in VMWare. Is it a way where we can install the drivers/convert the virtualized machine to start properly?

Of course this is urgent, as the customer is without their server for the moment...

Thanks!

Restore/recover Windows 2008R2 to VMWare from Windows Backup

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.