How to Reinstall a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Reinstall a Vultr Bare Metal instance to wipe its file system and reset its configuration. Back up data first.

Reinstalling a Vultr Bare Metal instance wipes the server file system, resets all configurations, and reinstalls the operating system. Any data available on the instance's file system is permanently deleted. You cannot recover it unless you back it up first.

Follow this guide to reinstall a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
Click the Server Reinstall icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
Select Yes, reinstall this server in the confirmation prompt and click Reinstall Server to reinstall the instance.

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