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If it can’t work, which PAID internet security I could use except ESET?

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@halladayrules wrote:

@Boing7898 wrote:

Hmm, but with Windows Server Backup, if I can’t boot to Windows Server 2008 R2 how I restore the system files?

Provided you included the system state backup in your backup solution you can just use the Server 2008 R2 installation disc which comes with the recovery environment built-in. Just select repair on the main installation screen and choose System Image Recovery.

@Boing7898 wrote:

Windows Server Backup can compress backups?

Windows Server Backup uses the Volume Shadow Copy service to create a virtual hard disk (.vhd) image of your computer, which is already pre-compressed. Admittedly, the compression rate isn’t as great as consumer products like Acronis which offer far greater compression rate. But to play devils advocate if you can’t afford a 500GB hard drive at Best Buy for like $60 then you shouldn’t be backing up the entire OS. The price of 1GB now is about 11 cents. Windows Server Backup isn’t the greatest, but its really simple to use and less complicated than consumer based ones that have all these options. Granted they have all the option but you have to pay a premium for it. Hard disk cloning is probably the best feature Acronis has that WSB does not have.

@Boing7898 wrote:

And a thing that I need and I haven’t finded is the backup to another external hard drive. I’ve only seen the backup to DVD, correct me if I’m wrong.

Plug in your external hard drive to your computer.
Verify that the drive is active in Windows Explorer (Start > Computer)
Open Windows Server Backup
Click “backup once…”
In the backup schedule, you have two options: full or custom > choose Custom
in the What Volumes do you want to backup? Do you see the external HDD?

I have a 500GB Western Digital Elements USB 2.0 external and I can both choose the external HDD as a backup target or choose the device itself as the source.

I’m using Windows Server 2008 btw though. The utility should behave the same though so me running the previous version of server should have nothing to do with it.

It’s also very important that you test your backup to verify that everything backed up properly. Also you could buy a 2nd hard drive that is the same exact size as your current drive and use that drive to simulate a hard drive failure. Mount the newly purchased hard drive in your computer and unplug the current HDD and plug it into your new one to simulate a hard disk failure (pretend). Then insert DVD installation disc and select the backup source (provided you have gotten it to work) and see if it restores your computer.

I’ve choosed to use Windows Server Backup but I have (again) some questions: Why if I try to do Backup Once it only uses 27GB and when I try Backup Schedule it uses like 70GB? P.S. I want to backup the entire server.
P.S: Its better if I use an external drive or I use my second internal drive?

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Hmm, but with Windows Server Backup, if I can’t boot to Windows Server 2008 R2 how I restore the system files? Windows Server Backup can compress backups? And a thing that I need and I haven’t finded is the backup to another external hard drive. I’ve only seen the backup to DVD, correct me if I’m wrong. Answer me this question and maybe I’ll stick with Server Backup 🙂

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=3 Love you!! The other fix worked!
What you mean with Install manually the display drivers?

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Thats the fix that you already posted, and I’ve already tried it

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I’d like to try Hyper-V too but if Aero will stop working I’ll go for another software like VMWare player 😮

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Bump!?

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@144Floppy wrote:

Hi
Here is a workaround that is working. The procedure is taken from the following topic:http://www.win2008workstation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5786#p5786

Download and extract the latest ATI Catalyst suit.
Open WinDdg as admin, select Open Executable, select InstallManagerApp.exe in the Bin64 folder, say no to the question about saving workspace.
Write this into the command line and hit enter: bp ntdll!RtlGetNtProductType “as /x ReturnValue rcx; gu; ed ReturnValue 1; g”
Write g on the command line and hit enter to resume the installer.
The installer will start – focus it’s window and click Next.
Go back to WinDbg. Hit Ctrl-Break. Type the command bc * to remove the breakpoint and after that g to resume the setup. Finish installing. Done.

Reboot, then you will have the issue with manual update the dispaly driver…

Hope it will work for you as well!

I’ve tried this workaround but in the list of the apps to install I only see Catalyst Installation Manager. If I try with 10.7 it installs all. Any help?

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