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From: Rick on 30 Mar 2010 14:23 I purchased a backup box to use in case my hardware fails. I have Win 2008 Server sp2. I use Windows backup to make a complete backup each night. I thought I should be able to restore to the new server by booting to the Win install disk and select complete restore. The new server has two hdd's that have the same drive letters as the old. The C: drive on the old is slightly small than the new one (150 gb vs 250 gb), but otherwise it has the same hardware. I boot to the Win install disk, select complete restore, plug in the backup drive and select the backup I want. When I start the restore it fails with "The Parameter is incorrect (0x80070057)". When I google this it seems to indicate a corrupt backup. I can use this backup to restore a file on to the old computer, so it seems okay - not corrupt. Any ideas on how to proceed? Regards, Rick
From: SteveB on 30 Mar 2010 15:11 Are you asking about SBS 2008? If not perhaps you should ask in a more general Win 2008 newsgroup. "Rick" <Rick(a)LakeValleySeed.com> wrote in message news:8F04D436-9D3E-4E0B-9E42-91B75FC57C3D(a)microsoft.com... >I purchased a backup box to use in case my hardware fails. I have Win 2008 >Server sp2. > > I use Windows backup to make a complete backup each night. I thought I > should be able to restore to the new server by booting to the Win install > disk and select complete restore. > > The new server has two hdd's that have the same drive letters as the old. > The C: drive on the old is slightly small than the new one (150 gb vs 250 > gb), but otherwise it has the same hardware. > > I boot to the Win install disk, select complete restore, plug in the > backup drive and select the backup I want. When I start the restore it > fails with "The Parameter is incorrect (0x80070057)". When I google this > it seems to indicate a corrupt backup. I can use this backup to restore a > file on to the old computer, so it seems okay - not corrupt. > > Any ideas on how to proceed? > > Regards, > > Rick
From: Leythos on 30 Mar 2010 15:18 In article <8F04D436-9D3E-4E0B-9E42-91B75FC57C3D(a)microsoft.com>, Rick(a)LakeValleySeed.com says... > The new server has two hdd's that have the same drive letters as the old. > The C: drive on the old is slightly small than the new one (150 gb vs 250 > gb), but otherwise it has the same hardware. > you can only restore to the same size or larger drives. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 30 Mar 2010 15:32 Have you initialized the disk on the backup box? My memory is that it won't work if the disk on the target box hasn't been at least initialized and/or a volume/partition created on it. -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel "Rick" <Rick(a)LakeValleySeed.com> wrote in message news:8F04D436-9D3E-4E0B-9E42-91B75FC57C3D(a)microsoft.com... >I purchased a backup box to use in case my hardware fails. I have Win 2008 >Server sp2. > > I use Windows backup to make a complete backup each night. I thought I > should be able to restore to the new server by booting to the Win install > disk and select complete restore. > > The new server has two hdd's that have the same drive letters as the old. > The C: drive on the old is slightly small than the new one (150 gb vs 250 > gb), but otherwise it has the same hardware. > > I boot to the Win install disk, select complete restore, plug in the > backup drive and select the backup I want. When I start the restore it > fails with "The Parameter is incorrect (0x80070057)". When I google this > it seems to indicate a corrupt backup. I can use this backup to restore a > file on to the old computer, so it seems okay - not corrupt. > > Any ideas on how to proceed? > > Regards, > > Rick
From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 30 Mar 2010 15:33
(new disk is 250, old disk is 150.) -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message news:MPG.261c187ccf81158898a239(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > In article <8F04D436-9D3E-4E0B-9E42-91B75FC57C3D(a)microsoft.com>, > Rick(a)LakeValleySeed.com says... >> The new server has two hdd's that have the same drive letters as the old. >> The C: drive on the old is slightly small than the new one (150 gb vs 250 >> gb), but otherwise it has the same hardware. >> > > you can only restore to the same size or larger drives. > > -- > You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little > voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. > Trust yourself. > spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address) |