evalutaion instalaltion

[C0mmUN1cAt0r]

Hey guys, I am currently working on setting up a test network at home, using windows server 2003, the whole aim is to try and get some microsoft certs under my belt. I purchased a microsoft press book some years ago on windows server 2003, it came with an 120 evaluation copy of server 2003, unfortuanately this disc has seen a few scratches in its years, the disc runs on bootup and enters the setup but only gets so far before files cant be found etc, I have managed to download another copy of the sofware (later service pack) however when I boot up from this disc I recieve a ntldr is missing and any key reboots. I have googled this and found several reasons for the erro, however in my situation, given my original disc boots up fine, then I persume my new cd is missing maybe boot up files etc, can anyone point me in a direction to resolve this??

 

[tlpeter]

You need other boot files on the disk
You could startup with the old disk and then change it for the new disk


It could also be possible that your motherboard only can handle standard edition of enterprice edition and you have the wrong one




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[C0mmUN1cAt0r]

thanks tlpeter,

i have tried that in a certain sense, when I run the disk that works I can enter a recover section which does give me a dos prompt, but i am being asked for a password which I have no idea on, i try to run the setup from there but get nowhere, the disk that works is enterprise and the disk which doesnt is also enterprise so rules that one out i think,

when you say other boot files i agree here, not sure why one version/disk enables the cd to launch on boot and the other doesnt, is it maybe the wayi have copied the cd across?

 

[tlpeter]

It could be
I have no idea about that password
You could try using power iso to get the bootfiles but i am not sure if you can do that




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[Cyberprog]

Doubt that it'll be the motherboard, could be a duff CD, but could just as easily be a dodgy CD Drive - i've had similar issues in the past. A motherboard issue would usually result in a BSOD, not a file copy error.

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[C0mmUN1cAt0r]

solved, I hadnt copied the cd correctly i needed to copy the image but I had just copied and pasted the installation files straight across