Re: restoring friends network best practice

well, good news -- for anyone looking to fix a rebooting issue after
having a motherboard replaced - here is what i found out...because i
didn't install the motherboard and wasn't there during the change, i
got on the server tonight and noticed that the BIOS was set to look
for a RAID drive, but this is a single drive box, so i turned off the
RAID in the BIOS and BAM - it went right into windows...

thanks again for all of your help -- i'm glad i spent my night
watching the baseball play-offs instead of rebuilding a server :-)

jared

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:27:21 -0400, "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]"
<mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, the size of the partition *may* matter. You need to make sure that
each is at least as large as the previous one (or at least large enough to
hold the restored data). Now would be a good time increase the system
partition size to something around 30-50 GB, if you have enough room on the
new drive.

You will also need any additional required drivers on a floppy disk (e.g.,
special SCSI controllers, etc.) when you do the base Windows 2003 install.
Using the Dell Server Assistant CD to reinstall the base OS should take care
of this need.

Again, one of the important keys to a successful restore is to bring the
Windows 2003 base install up to the same SP level as it was when the backup
was made. If you don't do this, you may end up with a blue screen after the
restore. I haven't found a reliable way to determine this from the data on
the original drive, even if you could get it to stop rebooting. So, if you
know it had Windows 2003 SP2, bring the base install up to that SP before
you attempt any of the restore. If you're not sure, start with Windows 2003
SP1, run through the System State restore and see what happens when you
reboot after the restore.
.

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