A GUI file explorer would have been nice! Well, let’s see how to add one. In trying to copy files using XCOPY or RoboCopy it was very cumbersome trying to command line copy bits and pieces of the folder structure that was all over the place. This was a no frills boot CD with just default configuration besides added drivers for storage and network. In the meantime, I created a Windows PE boot disk using the Deployment and Imaging Tools environment. A fresh install of Windows Server 2012 R2 was the way we decided to go. This wasn’t the way we wanted to do it, however, the box was running Windows Server 2003 so we needed to get off 2K3 with the end of life rapidly approaching. The plan was to copy the files we needed from there and then simply reload Windows. The files in question were on a separate “Data” partition. It was decided to simply boot the server in a PE environment to copy off necessary files that needed to be available as soon as possible. Recently, in working with a client who was using the Windows PE environment created with Windows 8.1 ADK, we had a server go down that had a corrupt Windows installation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |