Hi guys I have been doing some DR testing and I came across problems when restoring NT 4 to a different machine with different hardware configuration. I researched some the adsm.org's archive and came across one procedure which was:
1.. Install system NT with Microsoft CDRom on another disk than C: Then install the service pack. 2.. Copy " boot.ini ", which is on C:, in " boot.bck ". 3.. Install on the same disk TSM client. Customize TSM client with the same name than the one to restore. 4.. Launch GUI of TSM client and select all C: and restore. 5.. With Edit (wordpad, etc.) open the file boot.ini restored. 6.. Copy at the end of this file the content of boot.bck. boot.ini contains now two adresses of boot : the one of the restored system (which doesn't work yet) and the one of the installed system (which is working). 7.. Then copy two other files from the installed system to the restored system : WINNT/SYSTEM32/HAL.DLL WINNT/SYSTEM32/NTOSKRNL 8.. Reboot the server on the restored NT system. 9.. Relaunch GUI of client TSM and ask for a restoration of the registry base with selecting "system object". 10.. Reboot the server on the restored NT system. 11.. Verify that it works fine. 12.. When restore of C: is OK, it's possible to delete NT system on the other disk. Then modify boot.ini to delete the boot address of the installed NT system. 13.. Restore the other disks with the GUI TSM client. I followed this step by step but after step 8 I got the following message after os loader Windows Nt could not start because of following file is missing or corrupt \winnt\systems32\config\systemhardware profile/lastknow good menu Is there some other files that I need to copy before step 8? Or is there a better method for NT restoration? Current environment is Tsm server on windows v5.1.7 TSM Client v5.1.5 Thanks Tae
