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 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: &lang=fr">plug@bryceco.net> > To: &lang=fr">plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss