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Andy
Asked: 2013-12-31 15:33:37 +0800 CST

restore fails due to insufficent disk space

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I'm trying to test my SBS 2008 backup by restoring to a vm on a Hyper-V server. The SBS is a physical machine.

I created two vhdx each at 1TB in (fixed) size, which is larger than the actual disks which are 233 and 466 GB each. The restore fails almost immediately with this message:

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The physical server has two other disks which are not backed up if that matters. I'm starting the restore by booting the vm from the SBS 2008 CD and going to the complete system restore option.

Any ideas?

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1 Answers

  1. The first thing to do is make sure the recovery environment is actually seeing your hard drives.

    Open Command Prompt and run diskpart. The command list disk will show what disks windows sees. If they aren't showing up, either the VM is configured incorrectly, or you need to load some extra storage drivers first. I believe the restore wizard prompts you to load drivers at some point.

    Also, ensure "Format and repartition disks" is selected, or that the disks are blank (delete all partitions).

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