Move OS to new computer

[kernelpanic]

Hi
Is it possible to move the disks from one (broken) computer
to another? Its the whole OS included. I've tryed, but it
wont boot. Ive installed NT4 server on a separate disk on
this new computer and copied "hal.dll" and "ntoskrnl.exe"
because the new computer is a single CPU computer. I just
get a bluescreen during boot. I think I need to copy some
more system files to the old disk from the new, but what
files? I would be very thanksful to get help with this!

=)

 

[kernelpanic]

Now I get "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" problably because Its
a new SCSI controller in this computer. How do I update?
I cant boot NT with the old pair of SCSI disks.
I've also copied the "winnt\systen32\config" dir to the
old disk.

 

[Highland]

Make up an NT Boot disk to run from the floppy drive...dont think you need all these files on it but it'll work..!!! Autoexec, Boot.ini (you mite have to edit this to give the correct location of the NT OS you want to start), IO.sys, msdos.sys, ntdetect and ntldr.....

 

[Zorlod]

re-install NT on the new comp, during the instalation, press F6 at the blue screen in order to load your SCSI drivers for NT

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I agree - you'd be better off installing from scratch on the new computer. I hope it wasn't your PDC or Exchange server...

 

[kernelpanic]

Hi
First of all thanks to u guys helped me here!

I have solved it now. I just copied the files in
"\winnt\system32\config" from a working NT installation from another disk I made on the new computer, and then
the Adeptec SCSI sys-file as well. We have to install
most of the applications, but no data is lost at least.
The server is a webserver that we host temporarly.
So we dont have any documantation.. *sigh* But the worst
part is done now anyways.

It's not a PDC, we have 90% Sun boxes as servers, the rest is NT/9x/Mac/Linux. (Using SAMBA)
Uptime around 400 days on our major servers, can u beat that?!