Bare Metal Restore of Windows 2008 R2

Knowledge Base: RESTORE : Bare Metal Restore of Windows 2008 R2

Creation Date: May 24, 2010

Revision Date: September 19, 2011

Product: DS‑Client (Windows)

Summary

Bare Metal Restore is a restore process when the whole machine is being restored. Usually this type of restore is performed after a complete hardware failure or hardware upgrade.

Details

Starting from Windows 2008, Microsoft’s operating system installation includes a “System Reserved Partition” (usually 100MB). See “System Reserved Partition (Windows 2008 & up)”.