NT Bare Metal Restore

I find the following article in microsoft homepage, & suspect problem might
be due to this Q197295 because the Netnifity is running SP4 and my PC  is
running SP5. Thanks.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q197/2/95.ASP

Windows NT Does Not Boot to a Partition That
   Starts More Than 4 GB into Disk


   The information in this article applies to:

        Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
        Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0


   SYMPTOMS

   X86-based computers running Windows NT do not start if the "multi()"
syntax is used in the
   Boot.ini file and the first sector of the partition to which Windows NT
is installed is 4 GB or more
   into the disk. That is, if the cumulative size of other partitions and
unpartitioned free space
   before the partition to which Windows NT is installed is greater than or
 equal to 4 GB.

   One of the following error messages is displayed in this situation:

        Boot record signature AA55 not found (25EB found) Windows NT could
not
        start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could
        not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware.
        Please check the Windows NT documentation about hardware disk
        configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional
        information.

        Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or
        corrupt: Windows NT Root\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe


Regards,
Eric Tang

---------------------- Forwarded by Eric KF Tang/Hong Kong/IBM on
20-03-2000 12:28 ---------------------------
20-03-2000 12:28 ---------------------------

Eric KF Tang
20-03-2000 09:48

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:
From: Eric KF Tang/Hong Kong/IBM@IBMHK
Subject:  NT Bare Metal Restore


Hi All,

With reference to redbook "Windows NT Backup and Recovery with ADSM"
SG24-2231-00
I have tested the following successfully on a PC. However, encounter
problem when perform on a Netfinity.

Successful case on a PC with one hard disk (all partitions in NTFS)
disk0: c: 1028MB d: 502MB  f:502MB

1. Install NT on c: partition & TSM 3.1.0.7.06 NT client
2. Install NT on d: partition as "repair partition" & TSM 3.1.0.7.06 NT
client
3. format a 3rd partition f: in NTFS
4. format diskette in NT, copy files boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com
5. edit boot.ini in diskette to add rdisk(0)partition(3) statement as below
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT="Windows NT 3 Partition v4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT 2 Repair Partition
v4.00 call from diskette"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT 2 Repair Partition
v4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT 1 Server Version
4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT 1 Server Version 4.00
 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos

6. boot from 1st partition, logon administrator, change wallpaper setting &
 perform adsm backup on c:
7. boot from 2nd partition, logon administrator & perform adsm restore to
3rd partition f:
 copy f:\adsm.sys\registry\ntadsm01\machine\*.* f:\winnt\system32\config\
 copy f:\adsm.sys\registry\ntadsm01\users\default f:\winnt\system32\config\
 copy f:\adsm.sys\registry\ntadsm01\users\administrator\*.*
f:\winnt\system32\config\
8. insert diskette and select reboot from partition(3)
9. NT startup ok, wallpaper setting is OK for administrator, so I think
user profiles is OK

The same has been repeated to backup 2nd partition d: to ADSM and restore
to 3rd partition f:. And NT system reboot OK.

However the same does not work in a netfinity machines with 2 disks (all
NTFS) which got NT and data partitiion already allocated:
disk0: c: 4095MB, D: 4581MB
disk1: y: 4095MB, H: 502MB, G:996MB

1. C: partition is the original NT system, reboot is OK
2. Install NT to H: partition as the 'repair partition' and reboot from it
is OK.
3. both C: & H: are installed with TSM3.1.0.7.06 NT client
4. format partition G: in NTFS
5. format diskette in NT, copy files boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com
6. edit boot.ini in diskette to add rdisk(1)partition(3) statement:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINNT="adsm restore Server Version
4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINNT="adsm restore Server Version 4.00
 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00
[VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00
[VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos

7. with the diskette, boot from c: partition OK, logon administrator, &
perform adsm backup on c:
8. with the diskette, boot from h: partition OK, logon administrator &
perform adsm restore to g:partition
9.copy registry, profile ... mentioned above
10. insert diskette and select reboot from rdisk(1),partition(3)
11. fail with message:
Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:
<winnt root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe, please re-install a copy of the above
file
12. boot from c:, check the file is in g: partition and the file is there,
file attributes are the same as the one on c:
13. copy file ntoskrnl.exe from c: to g:
14. insert diskette and reboot from g:, failed with same message.
15. Repeat the above by adsm backup on h: then restore to g:, the same
failure.

I cannot re-simulate the case in my PC environment. Any hints what is going
wrong. Thanks.

Regards,
Eric Tang