[dba-Tech] win 2k problem

That looks like it's for cloning hard disks for pc's with similar
hardware... That's not what he's done - he took a working 2k install and put
it into a new box.

I've got him to put everything back in the old box, see if that helps, and
maybe we can get it all working after Easter.

Thanks Francisco


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco H Tapia [mailto:my.lists at verizon.net]
Sent: 08 April 2004 16:59
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] win 2k problem


Jon,
   Most people run the sysprep utility before the run into such 
things... check out this page from microsoft on how to use it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/deploying/introduction.as
p

Jon Tydda said the following on 4/8/2004 8:38 AM:

>Hi all
> 
>A colleague who really should know better has just taken delivery of a new
>pc for his department. So he swapped all the drives over from his pc to the
>new one, and tried to start it, and nothing happened. Well not quite
nothing
>- he got to a black screen with a flashing white cursor. I suggested that
he
>boot off the Win2k cd and run the repair utility, which he did.
> 
>So he rebooted again, and it's still going to the black screen and staying
>there.
> 
>He's got completely different hardware now - new motherboard, processor,
>ram, video card etc. The only things that are the same are the hard drive,
>cd-rw and dvd-rom.
> 
>I'm a bit stuck now, so I told him to run the repair utility again, see if
>that helps, but if anyone else has any suggestions, they'd be much
>appreciated...
>  
>


-- 
-Francisco


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