Re: SBS2000 down and restore isn't working - help me please

Yes, it's using IDE drives. The drives are fine, all the data is there I just can't get it to boot on the new system. I really wonder if it's a difference in hardware that's causing the drivers to crash the system.

My boss just found an article that said (at the very bottom) the system might take a few hours to boot after a disaster recovery restore especially if it's on new hardware. Last night I let it sit for an hour or more but certainly not a few hours - guess I should have let it sit overnight. We just restored again so we're going to let it sit for a while this time.

Just in case you're curious how we can so easily restore different ways... After doing a fresh install of SBS2k on the new hardware I used Acronis TrueImage to grab a snapshot of the drive. Now everytime a restore fails I can have it back to the fresh install in less than 15 minutes. I absolutely LOVE Acronis TrueImage. The only real downside is that their server version costs $700. I've asked them a couple times to create an SBS specific one that's priced for small companies like mine but so far they aren't interested in getting my business. Fortunately for me I have a lot of licenses for the non-server version and the bootable recovery disk doesn't care that it's imaging/restoring a server OS.

Steve Hiner

Mike wrote: 
I take it the Server was using IDE hard disk, right ???
Do you have a Mirror or copy of the hard disk from the orig system?

(I've always maintained servers should use SCSI hardware - you'll probably
need a
scsi if you use tape anyway so spend a few extra bucks on the HDD)


"Steve Hiner" <developer.deletesspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OstIUcZmFHA.3144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We have an SBS2k server.  The other day we had some power issues
overnight and it fried the mainboard despite being on a good UPS.  Since
the mainboard was toast we decided to upgrade a bit when replacing the
hardware.  All the data on the server's hard drives is intact but it
won't boot on the new hardware, it freezes at MUP.SYS (based on a safe
mode boot).

I switched to plan B and installed a fresh copy of SBS2k on new drives
on the new mainboard.  Everything works great until I restore the
backup.  After a system restore and reboot it blue-screens with a
Driver_Power_State_Failure or Bad_Pool_Caller Stop message.

So now I'm left with trying to restore everything manually.  Is there
any way to get the new installation of Exchange (same version of course)
to attach to the old exchange data?  I seem to recall that I can't just
create new accounts with the same name and assume that SBS2k will let
them have access to their old mailboxes.  I tend to think that Exchange
will view the user as someone that just happens to have the same user ID
  as the old user and it will deny access to the mailbox.  Am I right?

Sorry for the long post.  I've been up WAY late the last 2 nights trying
to get this thing back up and running, I'm a bit frazzled now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :-D

Steve Hiner
Software Engineer
ISI




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