Title pretty much says it all. Daily logs show backups running successfully every night for months. Have something like 200+ backups spanning 800GB on a 1TB USB drive. System now booting into Recovery mode (RecEnv.exe) but it refuses
to see the backups. Tried plugging and unplugging USB drive, tried multiple reboots, tried connecting the bare drive via a free internal SATA interface (BIOS sees it fine) but the backups are never found. Logged in as Administrator with the correct
non-default password.
Hooked the drive up as a USB device on a Windows 7 Pro machine - sees it fine. Not thrilled by the idea of restoring over the network from a USB 2.0 device but that is my next option.
I've searched for and read the "Essentials" posts on this forum and it appears I'm not alone, the cut and paste answers aren't cutting it.
Anybody actually done a bare metal restore using the Windows created backups and the Windows restore method on 2008 R2 Essentials? Any suggestions for Plan B?
