Restoring Windows 2003 OS Cluster Node with Exchange Installed

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My Client has 4 node cluster server with one standby node. I have been given
the task to repartition the system drive and restore from backup. OS is
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, with Cluster and Exchange 2003 and Backup
tool is TSM 5.4.2. The steps I performed was, Install base OS (Windows 2003),
Install TSM 5.4.2, restore System State (No reboot), restore System Services
(No Reboot) and then restore C and D drives and reboot server. The server
blue screens after reboot. From the TSM OTP file, exclusion list has some of
the below files/folders which are not been backed up. I want to know the
exact steps to restore and If I am missing something. My main objective is to
correct the partition size and bring the server to same state as it is before.

* Active Directory -is backed up via other method
exclude *:\NTDSDB
exclude *:\NTDSDB\*
exclude *:\NTDSDB\...\*

* Cluster Database
exclude *:\WINNT\cluster\CLUSDB
exclude *:\WINNT\cluster\CLUSDB.LOG
exclude *:\WINDOWS\cluster\CLUSDB
exclude *:\WINDOWS\cluster\CLUSDB.LOG

* Catalogue indexes used by IIS
exclude *:\InetPub\Catalog.wci
exclude *:\InetPub\Catalog.wci\*
exclude *:\InetPub\Catalog.wci\...\*

* Licencing Purchase History
exclude *:\WINNT\system32\CPL.CFG
exclude *:\WINDOWS\system32\CPL.CFG

* Machine Security Policy
exclude *:\WINNT\security\edb.log
exclude *:\WINNT\security\tmp.edb
exclude *:\WINNT\security\Database\secedit.sdb
exclude *:\WINDOWS\security\edb.log
exclude *:\WINDOWS\security\tmp.edb
exclude *:\WINDOWS\security\Database\secedit.sdb

* Sysvol directories
exclude *:\System?Volume?Information
exclude *:\System?Volume?Information\*
exclude *:\System?Volume?Information\...\*

* Indexes and catalogues
exclude *:\*.000
exclude *:\...\*.000
exclude *:\*\catalog.wci\*
.

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