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Windows server 2016 System image restore driving me crazy
Hi everyone. I am simply trying to recover a windows server 2016 system image. I took the image from a 400GB HDD and i'm recovering the image onto a new 400GB drive. The new drive is the same model as the old drive. I am using a USB flash drive to boot into recovery.
Error 1 - No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found.
So as per another post i opened Diskpart, list disk, select disk 1, clean..
Error 2 - The computer needs to be restarted to finish preparing a hard disk.
I reboot and then get error 1 again. Around and around we go.. I've selected exclude the flash drive. Also per another post suggesting i remove the flash drive just before i start the re-image process. That didn't help either..
I also tried to initialize the disk, set as active and assign a drive letter. no luck. So at this point. Just don't know. Thank you for any help.