Systems With A Don't Erase Partition; Managing Disks After A Restoration - HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Administration Manual

CAUTION:
In order for user data to be retained on two-drive systems, the data volume must be a single, mirrored
volume as initially configured by the factory.
If you choose to restore only the operating system on two-drive systems, you need to manually recreate
mirrors of your operating system and data volumes after the system is recovered and Windows boots.
Instructions are provided when you log in.
On systems with more than two physical drives, the system and data volumes are on different logical
drives supported by hardware RAID, so the system may be recovered without affecting the data.

Systems with a DON'T ERASE partition

The DON'T ERASE logical disk supports the restoration process only and does not host a secondary
operating system. Be sure to back up your user data, and then use the Recovery and Installation DVD to
restore the server to the factory state.

Managing disks after a restoration

After a system has been restored, drive letters may be assigned to the wrong volume. Windows Storage
Server 2003 assigns drive letters after the restoration in the order of discovery. To help maintain drive
letter information, placing the drive letter into a volume label is recommended. To change the drive letters
to the appropriate one, go into Disk Management and perform the following steps for each volume:
1. Right-click the volume that needs to be changed.
2.
Select Change drive Letter and Paths.
3.
In the Change drive Letter and Paths dialog box, select Change.
4. Select the appropriate drive letter an click OK.
5.
Click Yes to confirm the drive letter change.
6. Click Yes to continue. If the old drive letter needs to be reused, reboot the server after clicking Yes.
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