Re: Restoration of Domain Controller on Different Hardware System

Slipstream the CD to SP4. Remove ALL unnecessary hardware from the target box, these unnecessary hardware components can be installed after the restore process. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694

John

Marc wrote:

Hi,

I am currently trying to set up a test network environment at the company I work for in order to test a variety of things. We have a Windows domain set up in our regular network environment with two Windows 2000 Domain Controllers (at our primary location) and two Windows 2003 Domain Controllers (at our other location). I have set up 6 computers off our network, and need to make one of them a domain controller.

So far, I have managed to restore the system state and system disk of one of the Windows 2000 domain controllers via Directory Services Restore Mode to this designated machine (HP Compaq dx2000 MT) in the test environment, and can boot it up in safe mode. However, try as I might, I cannot get the machine to boot into regular mode - it constantly freezes at the splash screen. The source machine (i.e. the current domain controller in our real network environment) is an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 Server.

I know that documentation suggests at this juncture to do a repair install, but I've tried that and it just makes things worse - I can get into regular Windows 2000 server at that point, but I've gone from SP4 to no Service Pack, and everything seems screwed up after the repair install, including Active Directory itself. I think it would be easier to figure out why the machine can't boot into regular mode and fix it than to do a repair install and then go through fixing everything that gets screwed up by the repair install.

Any help regarding this issue, or any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Marc

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