NT (and most OSes) detect hardware configuration at boot time.
If you restore \WINNT\SYSTEM32, you overwrite what the machine detected with
what the old machine had. A bad thing.
Prevention: exclude \WINNT\SYSTEM32 from backups. (Maybe exclude all of
\WINNNT ? Not sure.)
Solution to your problem: here are notes from a couple of successes from
this list.
Hi all -
> THANKS for all the suggestions on restoring NT to unlike hardware.
> After 16 fruitless (well, seemed fruitless anyway) hours yesterday, it
> came together in 1 hour today. Here's what I had to do:
> 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
> (This fixed an error about invalid HAL.DLL on bootup after restore)
> 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.
> That's it. It seems to boot up fine now. I don't know if it has full
> functionality of the original. I'll ask someone to help test when the
> holiday is over. If I run into any changes to the above plan, I'll
> let you all know.
> I guess I would summarize the above plan as
> 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.
> My 2 machines are significantly different, one being an HP Netserver
> with RAID and the target being an HP Vectra, no raid or special
> devices.
> Thanks again.
> Julie Phinney
-----Original Message-----
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Anyone have any luck doing a bare metal restore of NT to different hardware.
We
have done the restore and it boots, but it is trying to load a SCSI driver
that
the physical device doesn't exist. I have tried reloading the driver so it
couln't find it but we still hang during the boot process. We are thinking
we
have just enough time to import a correct key.. Any other ideas?
Rod Richeson
Network Engineer
Corillian Corp
