Hi,
I'm trying to do a full client restore of Windows 8.1 with my Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials (all Windows Updates installed on server), but on the screen where I select source and destination volume, and I click on "Run Disk Manager", I get error "Cannot load Microsoft Management Console". Same error occurs whether I start the Full System Restore via network over Client Restore Service, or via USB stick.
I can think of a workaround to this, but I've used this earlier in previous Essentials/WHS versions and it has worked flawlessly, so I'm wondering if this is some regression in 2012 R2?
UPDATE: For anyone wondering, the workaround for this was to boot with normal Windows ISO, go to Advanced settings -> Command prompt, and set up the volume usingdiskpart tool. Then going back to Full System Restore, and you can just select the correctly initialized target volume.
Any comments?