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From: John John - MVP on 20 Jan 2010 10:49
Thomas Moeller Nexoe wrote:
> Hi.
>
> We are preparing a new server and are now testing ASR backup/recovery.
> The ASR backup is running fine. We are backing up to a USB drive with
> enough capacity and everything seems fine.
>
> When trying to test the backup and recover Windows Server 2003 R2 SD, we
> boot up on the CD, press f6 and then f2 to specify that we wish to load
> a SAS driver for the disk controller and then run a ASR recovery.
>
> Windows asks for the diskettes and loads a lot of stuff from the cd, but
> when windows asks for the ASR diskette the second time and actually
> tries to load the information for the ASR backup, it comes up with the
> following error:
>
> **************************************
>
> Setup was unable to restore the configuration of your system
> because of the following error:
>
> The capacity of the current system disk drive is
> insufficient, and cannot be used to recover the
> partitions on the original system disk.
>
> The replacement hard disk drives must be at least as large
> as the disks present on the original system.
>
> **************************************
>
> The funny thing is that we did NOT change any drives in the server. It
> is the complete same harddrives.
>
> Any thoughts on this?

The USB backup disk is bigger than the system disk and ASR thinks that
it can't hold the contents of the disk. Try creating a partition equal
or slightly smaller than the system disk on the USB backup disk and see
if things change.

John
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