I just went through testing and without the SP that was originally on
the machine I could not get the machine to come up correctly.  Once I
did the base install, applied the SP, restored the drives, then restored
the SYSTEM OBJECT it came up without a problem.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
TSM_User
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 6:21 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Restoring Domain controller

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 <sadi AT SUPER.NET DOT PK> 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

                
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