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Re: NT Recover to Dis-similiar hardware

2000-09-08 04:12:30
Subject: Re: NT Recover to Dis-similiar hardware
From: Gwen Garcia <gweng AT INTERACCESS DOT NL>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 10:11:21 +0200
Trevor,

Thanks to this magnificent site i'm keeping a logbook on specific problems.
This is an answer I got a few weeks ago:

Bare metal restore of NT to different hardware.
NT (and most OS?s) detect hardware configuration at boot time.
If you restore \WINNT\SYSTEM32, you overwrite what the machine detected with 
what
the old machine had.

Prevention: exclude \WINNT\SYSTEM32 from backups.  (Maybe exclude all of 
\WINNNT.)

Solution to your problem:
1. Format the C: partition FAT and leave it empty
2. Install the D: partition FAT and install NT and ADSM on it. I used the same
machine name and domain name as the original machine
3. Do a DSMC RES {SYS}\* -SU=YES -REP=ALL
SYS is the drive label of the C: drive on both the original machine and the new
machine
4. Do an ATTRIB BOOT.INI -S -H on both C:,D: and copy D:\BOOT.INI C:\
5. Copy D:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32
6. Copy C:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\id\MACHINE\*.* C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG
Copy C:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\id\USERS\*.* C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG where id is the
machine name of the source machine.  This skips a subdir under USERS called 
SYSTEM.
It has 2 files, SYSTE000 and SYSTE000.KEY that I didn't copy over, and don't 
know
what they are
7. Delete C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
8. Boot to DOS and copy D:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM to C:\same
9. Boot up the new C: partition.

Summarization:
1. Create 2 partitions, install NT on 1 of them, format them FAT
2. Restore to the blank one
3. Copy the restored registry that sits in ADSM.SYS to the proper location.  
Then
delete the SYSTEM hive and copy it from your other partition.  Copy HAL.DLL and
BOOT.INI from your other partition as well.

Maybe this will help.

Gwen Garcia ;-)


Trevor Odell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have a document, or does Tivoli provide a document on how to 
> restore
> an NT server to a different hardware platform ?  The process we developed for
> Veritas with a locally attached tape drive cannot be used ( obviously ) and
> trying to use it with TSM just results in Blue Screens - probably due to the
> necessity of installing a NIC card as opposed to the MS Loopback adapter...  
> Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.

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