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Where do I get a recovery disk for the client to restore from a WHS 2011 backup?

Current Solution: Now I've found my recovery disk (CD). I made the following observations: My CD drive seems to be faulty. Also the generation of the USB recovery media doesn't work. Don't know if the USB 3.0 stick was the problem here. I haven't tried another one. Perhaps that would help. The solution was that I copied the files from CD to USB and now I was able to boot.

Nevertheless, from where would I get the recovery disk if I don't have the CD anymore and the USB approach also fails? Doesn anyone know how I could report this error to Microsoft?

Old question:

I followed these instructions Create a bootable USB flash drive to restore a client computer for Windows Home Server 2011 to create a bootable media to restore a client from a backup.

The operations only takes a second at it says it is finished. If I want to remove the USB drive I can't. I only see ... in the window. So I put out the USB drive and boot from it with the client. But the screen stays black. If I want to view the content of the USB drive neither on the WHS nor on another PC I can access the files. I can only format it.

I tried to use another USB port, another file system (exFAT, NTFS) and did multiple restart. My problem now is that I need a bootable media. Where do I get one? The above doesn't work at all.

EDIT:

PC even doesn't boot from another CD despite everything should be set up ...

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Try something different?

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

Rufus screenshot

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Others tried what you tried and failed. So, you are not alone on this. Maybe look at this forum thread on recovery media for WHS 2011 and see if you get further. The actual ISO file name seems to be en_client_restore_disc_windows_home_server_2011_x86_x64_cd_658475.iso

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