Dear Kyle, If i am going to restore to a different hardware, then what options would i take when i boot from Windows installation CD, after restore?
I am a little confused here. Sandra TSM_User wrote: > Did you restore onto the same hardware or to different hardware. If it is > different hardware is there a difference between the server that was backed > up and the server you restored? Usually boot problems with windows OS > restores are due to one of two things. Either you have different hardware in > which case you have to run through the In-Place upgrade or you didn't have > the correct service pack installed when you first built the server. > > Remember that if you want to restore the backup of an OS+SP (ex Windows 2000 > SP4) then you must first build the server with that OS+SP prior to performing > the restore. Also if you are on differnt hardware and you want to perform a > dissimilar restore then on the first boot after the restore you must boot > form a Windows installation CD with the OS "slipstreamed" into it. > > Kyle > > Sandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > I had to restore active directory, and the one which did not have any any > other > backup domain controller (This is also our mail server MS Exchange 2000). > > What i did was that i installed OS and service packs .. and then simply went > into restoring the server using backups ! > > 1-Restored drive C > 2-Restored Drive D > 3- Restored System objects > > When i restarted the system it didn't comeup instead it remained at the first > white bar of windows loading against black back ground. > > I was pretty much confused as to what did i do wrong as i restored everything > and it should have come back. > > Anyone any idea on this? I wanted to keep things simple but it sounds like it > is > not letting me to be simple .. ! > > Regards, > Sandra > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'
