NT4 server and ghost

[redbeard1]

I had this up on the os's forum and had no luck, so I thought I'd try it in here.

I've used ghost on win2k servers before and everything copies over fine. Last week I cloned a NT4 server SP4, boot drive, and it didn't keep the drive letter assignments. The system drives were originally setup as C: hdd, D: cdrom, and F: second partition. Both partitions were ntfs. After the ghost, the order was C: hdd, D: second part., and E: cdrom. This was easy enough to correct, but it caught me off guard. The old drive was 4.3 gig, the new 9.1 gig.

Did a bunch of searching over at symantec, found all sorts of other interesting stuff, but nothing about this.

Has anyone else seen this happen, and what would the cause be?

 

[redbeard1]

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[AKA]

Its a drive partition rule.. that all partitions will be assigned a drive letter before removable drives etc.

What happened in your case is that NT was able to tell that the cdrom on the newely imaged computer was not the same and so it reloaded drivers for it.. which then of course gets reassigned a drive letter.. then thats where the rule comes in.

Same thing would happen if you removed the cdrom drive and restarted computer.

 

[redbeard1]

The drive was a direct replacement for the old server, so the cdrom was the same. It's been my experience with win2k that it will not change drive letters, even when you add or subtract drives, unless it is told to. I was under the impression that NT4 worked the same way. Unlike win98, which is locked to certain set of rules for hard drive and cdrom drive lettering.