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 <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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