NT PDC Restore difficulties

[c00ld00d]

I am having a great time trying to restore a PDC backup to a computer with different hardware. Here's what I have done:

1) Installed a fresh copy of NT Server SP1.
2) Installed SP6a

(at this point, all is well, network is connecting just fine)

3) Restore the backup.
4) Did an upgrade install of NT SP1 to fix hardware diffences. At this point, drivers for the installed network card are not present. The system runs for about 30 seconds after being presented with the login screen.
5) Very quickly log in and renanme tcpip.sys.
6) Reboot. System will now run without frezeing.

That is my problem. What is causing the freeze? I have tried uninstalling all other software that loads upon startup, but it only makes it freeze in shorter times.

I have been struggling with this thing for 2 weeks with no progress. Any help would be great!

Thanks,
Brian

 

[NortonES2]

Assuming you have backed up the entire C:\ drive (boot partition) you can try this:-

1. Install NT into a different directory ie if your original install was in c:\winnt then install the new copy into c:\winnt1 keep directory as FAT.

2. Install service pack

3. Install your backup software and attach tape drive.

4. Restore your original PDC from tape excluding boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr

5. Restart the server

6. edit boot.ini to include a line pointing to your restored installation ie

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt=”PDC Server”

7. boot the system using a dos boot disk then copy the following files:

\winnt1\system32\hal.dll \winnt\system32
\winnt1\system32\ntoskrnl.exe \winnt\system32

\winnt1\system32\ntdll.dll \winnt\system32
\winnt1\system32\kernel32.dll \winnt\system32

if the new server has a different disk controller then also copy the file for that ie

\winnt1\system32\drivers\cpqarray.sys \winnt\system32\drivers\aic78u2.sys

8 Reboot the server into winnt “PDC Server” option

good luck.

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