Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing adaptive system recovery for computer systems. This may include receiving restoration information from a first computer system wherein the restoration information defines each storage component associated with the first computer system and the restoration information includes a storage component status, a storage component signature, a storage component type, and a storage component size. The restoration information may be used to match each of the storage components of the first computer system to a storage component of the second computer system based at least on the restoration information and size of the storage component of the second computer system. Matching may include matching a storage component signature from the restoration information to a storage component signature of a storage component associated with the second computer system. Other aspects are described in the detailed description.