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Tried to restore Win2K to small temp drive - it wont boot - now what?

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Wiz

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I have to send my Quantum 36 gig back under RMA, I have a full backup and a small Seagate Barricuda (originally paid $1400 for this drive in 1995)
What I want to do is restore to the small drive and run on it until the new Quantum gets back from RMA, then with a fresh backup in hand restore to the new Quantum and run on it.
Any ideas if this will work without installing Win2K on it first? Can I run Restore from my working Win2K and specify the other drive to restore to and then reboot making it the C drive?
 
Well, I did the restore but the drive won't boot.
How do I transfer boot to the thing? This is (if I remember correctly) the part where I have to transfer the kernel?
Also the friggin thing didn't work Like I hoped it would, it made a 'Boot Files' Folder that did not exist on the original disk. Why can't MS just do what you want them to do instead of always trying to figure out for you what you really wanted... They piss me off so much.
Anyway, how do I transfer the system now?
 
First, partition (and format, too, while you're at it) the old drive using w2k Disk Management, thus making it an NT disk. Then use Norton Ghost (or similar program that preserves long file names) to do a partition to partition copy. Then change your old drive to master on boot IDE channel and you should be OK. (For it to work OK, the drive letter of your replacement drive should be the same drive letter that your current drive uses.)
 
Sorry, I didn't give enough info I guess.
The drives are scsi.
Already formatted the target drive with ntfs and did the restore. W2K restore made a special 'Boot Files' folder and put lots of files in there instead of in the root of the drive.
I just merged them and am going to attempt booting from it again. See ya on the flip side I hope 😉
 
Well, that time was a little closer, it got to the black screen with the white gas guage at the bottom this time saying 'loading windows 2000' but then crapped out complaining about missing files.
What's wrong with this picture? You go into MS Win2K backup and say you want a full backup with system state. Then you restore and the drive you restore to can't boot.
Good old MS backup - I thought maybe they would have figured it out by now. I've had the same experience with them since way back in the olden golden days of dos.
Any ideas? I'm tempted to try a repair.
 
Well, I went with the option of Ghost. Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing??
I boot up with a dos diskette and then go to a fat drive where I have Ghost6.
Run it, it starts making the image - gets through 'Dumping the MFT' and starts on '7 $Boot'
and errors out to 'Your program caused a divide overflow'.
I have tried several times. Could it be that I am using a W98 dos startup disk and I need to use an earlier version?
I've tried it using the LOCK command also with the same results. No matter how I do it I get the same error at the same place.
Any Ghost gurus out there?
I have two scsi drives and one UDMA with fat where the Ghost6.exe file lives. I boot from the floppy and then go to the fat drive and run ghost6 from there.

Alternatively, if someone knows the secret to doing a full W2K backup and restoring it to a different drive and having it be bootable please speak up.
 
The easiest and by far the fastest way, I've found, to back up a w2k partition is to use w2k to make the copy. On my wife's machine I use a dual boot w2k/w2k, with the second w2k being a minimal install and used only to back up and, when necessary, restore her first, or working, partition. Also, for my machines that have SCSI cards, I have a small external SCSI drive that can be booted from BIOS into w2k and used to do the same thing. Can do a backup or a restore in 10 - 15 minutes, depending on the size of the partition. Any of those w2k disk images can, of course, be copied to a different disk from the one it was copied from, and used, the only caveat being that the drive letter used by the copy must be the same as the drive letter used by the original (because of a registry bug that won't let you log on if the system partition's drive letter has changed). Another caveat, I understand, is that using a w2k copy in a domain can run into securityID problems, but shouldn't affect a standalone or workgroup computer.
 
obenton, when you say 'image' do you mean there is a program in W2K that does this?
How do you make this 'image'?
 
What I meant by "image" is just a plain, old file/directory copy. If you're using NTFS on the drive you copy to, you can compress it, which would save some space.
 
Right, I just can't get it to copy all files that way. Keep getting the error where a file is in use yada yada...
 
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