

Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer. Restore or repair your server running Windows Server Essentials

Restore a full system from an existing client computer backup To create a bootable USB flash drive for use in recovering or reinstalling Windows on a PC instead of a server, see Create a recovery drive.įor additional scenarios in which you may want to create or use a bootable USB flash drive, see the following topics: For information about DiskPart, see DiskPart Command-Line Options. The first step is to prepare the USB flash drive by using DiskPart, which is a command-line utility. You can create a bootable USB flash drive to use to deploy Windows Server Essentials.

Applies To: Windows Server 2016 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 Essentials
