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Sep 22, 2018

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Main server OS corrupted

Hi folks, I have an old Acer Easystore H340 that's running Windows Home Server (yes, it's THAT old). This is a HEADLESS NAS box and recently it dropped off my home network. I tried all sorts of ...

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Dave Ford
Oct 05, 2018
Update: Thanks to this post: https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cf354b5d-b37b-4b7f-a0d5-8e573697777f/how-to-recover-data-after-server-failure?forum=whsfaq

I've been able to recover all of my data.

If anyone else has one of these Acer Easystore servers running Windows Home Server 2003, this thread should help you out.

Dave Ford

Copper Contributor

Oct 05, 2018

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Update on this:

I was able to install Windows Home Server 2011 on this headless device thanks to an amazing post here: https://homeservershow.com/forums/topic/4229-whs2011-on-an-acer-h34x/

It walked me through the tricks... I was able to back-up my DATA drives elsewhere and have now installed them into the unit. Windows Home Server 2011 sees the drives (called DATA), but when you use explorer to hopefully view the files, there's nothing there.

There has to be some 'trick' to get Windows Home Server 2011 to read the files from these DATA drives. Anyone know?

Dave Ford

Copper Contributor

Oct 05, 2018

Update: Thanks to this post: https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cf354b5d-b37b-4b7f-a0d5-8e573697777f/how-to-recover-data-after-server-failure?forum=whsfaq

I've been able to recover all of my data.

If anyone else has one of these Acer Easystore servers running Windows Home Server 2003, this thread should help you out.