Bare metal recovery Windows Server 2012 R2: The processor architecture or OS version of Windows Recovery Environment is not the same as that of the computer that was backed up

Andreas Bischoff 0 Reputation points
2023-06-12T10:43:27.7633333+00:00
Dear all,

having trouble since more than a week to get my domain controller back up and running.

I was using the built in Windows Server tools and created daily full backups including bare metal recovery.

Unfortunately the backups were on an iSCSI disk.

Under Windows 10 I could see the backups with wbadmin get versions when mounting the iSCSI disk.

Copying the content to an USB drive didn't work.

Copying the data to a RDX drive looked OK.

So I finally disassembled my PC and then connected the RDX drive to the server.

Now when booting from the original Server 2012 R2 DVD I just need to add the drivers for the INTEL RAID.

This works fine and I can see the disks on the server.

When starting the recovery it shows the latest backup.

Clicking through it seems to start the recovery, but then fails with: 

The processor architecture or OS version of Windows Recovery Environment is not the same as that of the computer that was backed up

The hardware is definitely the same as used for the backup.

The OS is also the same.

I can only assume that the Windows backup was updated (updating monthly) and that the original recovery environment from the installation DVD is not compatible anymore with the latest backups.

Any idea how to create a recovery image including a compatible version of the windows server recovery feature?

There are no ADKs for Windows Server 2012 R2 available for download anymore.

Can I just use a Windows server 2016 installation DVD for the recovery?

Thanks and Regards,

   Andreas


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  1. Limitless Technology 44,781 Reputation points
    2023-06-13T10:21:52.3033333+00:00

    Hello there,

    I would suggest to check the below limitation of bare metal.

    Systems containing dynamic disks are suitable for bare metal recovery. The dynamic disks are converted to basic disks. Dynamic disks made up of stripes of multiple smaller disks are replaced with a single large disk.

    If a disk uses the MBR partition table, the total size of its volumes must not exceed 2TB.

    Mixed MBR/GPT partitions on the same disk are not supported. Mixed MBR/GPT disks can cause issues. If you have such a disk, recover only the boot drive through the bare metal recovery. Then restore the data drive separately, if needed.

    Similar discussion here

    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cbd02bcb-bd04-4d21-b964-2f6132b1674a/windows-2012-r2-baremetal-restore-failed?forum=winserverfiles

    Hope this resolves your Query !!

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