BMR - with winpe (do i need to create disk before systemstate restore)

[bostjanc]

Greetings!
We are doing BMR with WINPE on win 2008 32 bit server.
We are following this tutorial: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/...2008 R2, Windows 7, and Windows Vista?lang=en

We are restoring on a virtual machine.
At the point of diskpart and listing all the volumes I see only cd-rom shown. Do i need to create partition on disk before going to command: dsmc restore systemstate?
The tutorial is not mentioning anything about manully creating partition and disks.

 

[domino]

... At the point of diskpart and listing all the volumes I see only cd-rom shown...

Sounds like a problem with device driver. Please confirm that the correct device driver was being used.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...nguage=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1011710

 

[bostjanc]

In DISKPART, list volumes shows me only CD/DVD-rom, but if i do list disk I see 1 disk. Soo it's a controller driver problem on vmware? I had similiar problems with a network at the begining and I have followed the hyperlink you are mentioning to insert vmware NIC drivers, but that did not work. I then manually selected type of a NIC on virtual machine to E1000. I did not recreate ISO WIN-PE with Vmware drivers because I thought they ain't working or needed.

 

[bostjanc]

drivers were not the problem, because we have tried booting with WINPE on phisical machine and the error is the same:http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?27332-BMR-ANS4005E-Error-processing-file-not-found