There is a MS Q article that addresses this issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810161
Although not smooth, we have successfully restored W2K to different
hardware.
Regards,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Deschner [mailto:rogerd AT UIC DOT EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:41 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Ghost devices after a BMR of Windows2000
I did BMR to different hardware twice and it was gruesome enough that I now
recommend against it. Windows gets comfy in its hardware, settling in with
all the right drivers for the hardware you have on that machine. Put it to
bed in its comfy old home, transport it to a new home, wake it up, and it is
very disoriented. It's got the Registry for a different house, and nothing
is where it used to be anymore. It can't find the bathroom, the jar of
mayonaise has been replaced by Miracle Whip, who knows where the silverware
drawer is, and the microwave works totally differently. It may not run at
all. If it does, you're going to have to go throguh many iterations of
reloading device drivers, redefining things like NIC cards that now have
different MAC addresses, and so on. At one point I had so many ghost devices
that I simply deleted ALL devices and let it find everything all over again.
On average, it has taken me twelve reboots and at least one Regedit.
Windows is the least transportable and least modular OS ever. Don't expect
any restore procedure involving restore of the Registry to different
hardware to work, but if it does, consider it serendipity.
The new hardware will almost always have a much larger disk drive, and might
come from the factory with a newer OS version preinstalled. Either just use
that, or do a full new install, and then restore all the old files to an
"Old Machine" folder so the end-user can fetch their documents and other
files as needed. "You're in a new house, but the boxes with all your stuff
from your old house are down in the basement where you can get what you
need."
This issue most frequently comes up with stolen laptops.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rogerd AT uic DOT edu
==="If a train station is where a train stops, what's a work station?"==
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Bill Boyer wrote:
>Did a BMR of a Windows2000 server to a different more current hardware.
>After the restore it wouldn't let us assign the IP address to the "new"
>adapter because it said there was an "old" adapter with that address
>already defined. Going to the Device manager the old adapters did not
>show up with the little yellow icon sayint they were inactive/in error.
>We couldn't find a way to uninstall the "old" adapter definitions so we
>could assign the IP address to the "new" adapter.
>
>Anyone run into similar situations like this wiht BMR to different
>hardware? We ended up searching the registry for the adapter string and
>deleteing all those keys. Not pretty, but it worked.
>
>Bill Boyer
>"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??
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