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How to Create a Missing System Reserve Partition (SRP)
Description
You have omitted to protect the SRP partition, or it was in a different protection schedule than OS(C:\) drive of your Rapid Recovery protected Windows 2008R2 or later agent. You are forced to do a BMR or a Virtual Export. The recovery operation goes well, but the exported machine does not boot. You need to find a way to quickly re-create the SRP.
Resolution
To recreate the SRP:
Boot from a WinRE environment (Windows Install Disk would also work), either press combo keys SHIFT+F10 or navigate through the various menus to get to a Command Prompt option. Open a DOS Command Prompt.
Run DiskPart
At the DiskPart prompt type: list volume Note that the SRP partition has actually been created but it is reported as unformatted.
Make note of the drive letter for: - the SRP (which is shown as a raw partition) - the system volume (contains the Windows OS) - the CD you have used to boot. Note: For the following we assume that the SRP is shown as C:, the System Volume as F: and the CD Drive as G:
Run list disk
Identify the disk containing the SRP & the OS and guiding yourself by the size of the drives. We assume that it is disk 0.
Run select disk 0
List the disk's partition running list partition
Identify the number of the SRP partition (it should be 1) and select it running select partition 1
Format the SRP running format fs=NTFS label=”SRP”
Set the SRP Partition as active running Active (Note that it is marked with an * now, when running list partition)
Exit DiskPart typing exit and hit enter
Change the focus from X: (the default) on the SRP partition (c:) by running: c:
Create a folder called Boot running: Mkdir Boot
Copy the content of the boot folder on the system partition (F:) to the new folder: xcopy f:\windows\system32\boot c:\boot /e /h
Copy the bootmgr from the root of the CD (g:\) copy g:\bootmgr
Run the following commands - Bootrec /Fixmbr - Bootrec /Fixboot - Bootrec /rebuildBCD When it asks to add installation to boot, print Y and hit Enter.
Close the Command Prompt and reboot the machine, it should boot all the way now.
Alternatively, you can try the following after step 16:
Change the focus back to drive X: and change the location to x:\sources\recovery (Note: This can only be performed if booted up from the windows CD/iso) X:
Run cd \sources\recovery
Run startrep
Note: In some rare instances you need to redo the boot sector.
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