The August Preview of Windows Home Server Vail is the gift that keeps on giving.
In this release, there is now a feature that enables you to plug a USB thumb drive into your server and create a bootable drive that contains the necessary software to perform a full system restore of a client PC.
The nice thing about the process is that the thumb drive is created for both 32 and 64 bit PCs meaning that you only need one thumb drive to restore any PCs in your house. Steps to perform a restore after the creation of the flash drive are largely unchanged from past releases or even WHS v1.
I performed a test restore of my netbook and I’ve included screenshots below of the restore process and the creation of the restore thumb drive.
Tom on Tech 