Recover from a Disaster Using the Bootable CD Method (Windows XP and Windows 2003)
To recover a Windows XP or 2003 machine from a Disaster, perform the following procedure:
- Start the machine you want to recover with the Windows XP Professional or Windows 2003 CD.
- When prompted, press any key to boot from CD.
Note: If you need to install additional SCSI drivers that are not supported on the Windows CD, press F6.
- A message displays at the bottom of the screen asking you to press F2 to start Automated System Recovery. Press F2.
Important! You must press F2. Otherwise, normal windows installation procedure starts.
- When you are prompted to insert the disk labeled Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR) Disk, insert the disk labeled CA ARCserve Backup Machine Specific Disk created for this server, and press Enter.
If you pressed F6, the option prompts you to insert hardware specific disks.
- The ASR process evaluates the available disk configuration. If ASR requires you to recreate disk partitions, a recovery process screen displays. Press C to recreate your disk partitions, or F3 to quit. This screen will not appear if disk partitions are not being recreated.
- Based upon the configuration of the machine that you are recovering, you may be prompted several times to insert a disk labeled CADRIF and the Windows automated system recovery disk. These disks are identical to the disk labeled "CA ARCserve Backup Machine Specific Disk" and is in the machine. Press Enter again.
- Remove the disk labeled "CA ARCserve Backup Machine Specific Disk" and reboot the machine. When you reboot, the ASR process continues. This process configures the machine for the option to run the disaster recovery process.
- When prompted, insert the CA ARCserve Backup CD, leaving the machine specific disk in the drive and click OK. The Disaster Recovery Wizard opens.
This Disaster Recovery Wizard dialog displays all available devices on the remote CA ARCserve Backup server. View Log and View Config are not accessible for a Windows XP Disaster Recovery.
Note: Press Ctrl+Shift and double-click the image on the left side of the Disaster Recovery Wizard dialog to display a DOS prompt window. The DOS prompt window enables operations from the command line to run most of the 32-bit windows program such as windisk.exe, regedit.exe.
- Click Next.
The original hard disk configuration is now restored, and the following information is displayed in the Disaster Recovery dialog.
- Formatted partitions--Space that is partitioned and formatted. They are formatted when a session is assigned to them.
- Unformatted partitions--Space that is partitioned but not formatted. They are formatted when a session is assigned to them.
- Free space--Disk space that is not formatted and not partitioned. Free space is created when a partition is deleted. To assign a drive letter to free space, you must first partition it.
- Click Next.
The wizard is ready to begin recovery for each partition to which a backup session is assigned.
- Click Start Disaster Recovery.
The Disaster Recovery Wizard displays.
The Disaster Recovery Wizard copies the data from the specified sessions to the specified partitions. A progress bar shows the progress of the restore process.
Note: Press Ctrl+Shift and double-click the image on the left side of the Disaster Recovery Wizard dialog to display a DOS prompt window. The DOS prompt window enables operations from the command line to run most of the 32-bit windows program such as windisk.exe, regedit.exe.
- Click Finish to complete the disaster recovery process and reboot to your original configuration.
- When the message to modify the boot.ini file displays, click Yes to modify or No to not modify the file.
- Remove the remaining disk and CD from their drives and click OK.
When your machine restarts it will be restored to the state as of its last full backup and information contained within the restoration media.