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Perform BMR in Express Mode

The Express Mode requires minimal interaction during the recovery process.

Follow these steps:

  1. From the Choose a Recovery Mode dialog, select Express Mode and click Next.

    The Summary of Disk Restore Settings screen opens, displaying a summary of the volumes that are going to be restored.

    Note: On the bottom of restore summary window, the drive letters listed in Destination Volume column are automatically generated from the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). They can be different from the drive letters listed in Source Volume column. However, the data is still restored to proper volume even if drive letters are different.

    Bare Metal Recovery - Summary of Restore Settings dialog.
  2. After you have verified that the summary information is correct, click OK.

    The restore process starts. The BMR wizard screen displays the restore status for each volume.

  3. From the Utilities menu, you can access the BMR Activity Log and you can use the Save option to save the Activity Log.

    By default, the Activity Log is saved to the following location:

    X:\windows\system32\dr\log.

    Note: To avoid getting a Windows-generated error, do not save the Activity Log on your desktop or create a folder on your desktop using the Save As option from the BMR Activity Log window.

  4. If you are restoring to dissimilar hardware (the SCSI/FC adapter which used to connect hard drives could have been changed) and no compatible driver is detected in your original system, a "driver injection" page is displayed to allow you to provide drivers for these devices.

    You can browse and select drivers to inject to the recovered system so that even if you are recovering to a machine with dissimilar hardware, you can still bring back the machine after BMR.

  5. When the BMR process is completed, a confirmation notification is displayed.