[OT] Win2k Adv Svr

Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:47:27 MST

Thanks Adrian.  I'm just about to head off to Fry's to pick up a controller card.  It sounds easy enough and now i'm kicking myself for such an obvious answer.  Thanks all.

Adrian Mink <adrian@minkland.com> a écrit :

> There is no easy way around that one. If you are just putting in a new
> controller what you can do is leave the old controller in as the boot device
> and install the new one. Boot up and install the new controller, then swap
> the hard drive over. Should work then. If you are swapping out motherboards,
> here is what I have done. Get yourself a cheap little IDE controller, a
> promise or whatever. Get the system working with the old motherboard and the
> IDE controller. Then put in the new motherboard, still using the same IDE
> controller. In the past that has allowed me to boot and install the new
> motherboard devices. Hope that helps.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 11:33 PM
> Subject: [OT] Win2k Adv Svr
> 
> 
> > Ok, this is REALLY off topic but it does stem from linux in less than 20
> steps.  I was upgrading a couple servers yesterday, linux ( :-) ) and win2k
> adv svr ( :-( ).  Naturally, the linux server went perfectly but win2k
> sucks! (ok, i already knew that.).  Anyway, it seems that when you change
> win2k's harddisc controller, i.e. differebt motherboard, all hel breaks
> lose.  Win2k doesn't know how to boot.  I know that re-installing would fix
> this (with several restarts) but that would wipe the registry etc.  Can
> anyone PLEASE help me out here?  I do have write access to the NTFS volume
> if neccessary but I really need this server up ASAP.  (Damn vendor, won't
> write for linux).  Can someone please guide me somewhere that might lead to
> resolution?
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Bryce C.
> > Network Administrator
> > CoBryce Communications
> > Bryce@BryceCo.Net
> >
> >
> >
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