Image-based bare metal restore procedures

For disaster recovery of the Windows client, the restore procedure varies slightly depending on the Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE) of the operating system and target to which you restore. Server 2003 R2 and earlier clients use WinPE 1.5, while Vista and later clients use WinPE 2.0. In general, you boot from the CD, then restore the system volume with the bare metal backup, followed by any other volumes and data with file-level backups (master, differential, or incremental). Before restoring, be sure the Windows image-based restore requirements have been met. Then proceed to one of the following procedures:

     Physical to Virtual (P2V) image-based restores of Windows clients to create a virtual machine instance of a physical server.

     Dissimilar image-based bare metal restore for Windows 2003 and 2003 R2 to restore Server 2003/2003 R2 to a computer of a different make, model, or hardware configuration.

     Dissimilar image-based restore for Vista and later environments to restore Windows Vista, 2008, and 2012 server to a computer of different make, model, or hardware configuration.