Disaster recovery is naturally done from Image backup, but Stratesave supports Disaster recovery from both Image backup and File backup with System State. This works because file backups are precise: NTFS specialities (Security, Links, Streams, Sparse Files etc.) are included in backup.
The first step is usually to Restore Disk Header or partition target drive.
Then Restore the system partition and other partitions.
Removable Storage Manager (RSM) for tape autoloaders can't be used in Windows PE during disaster recovery for local restores. Tapes and tape autoloaders can be used in SCSI direct mode.
On Windows PE 2.0, use NETSH-command to configure Network and NET-command to to map remote-drives. BartPE and VistaPE have tools included for that purpose.
On Windows 2003, if MSDTC service fails to start or system spends very long time with "Applying computer settings..." during reboot, run command MSDTC -resetlog from the command prompt in safe mode.
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