[dba-Tech] win 2k problem

sysprep is used for cloning on a regular basis, but it also does much 
much more... THE CRITICAL problem with your "friends" upgrade was that 
he simply moved the Hard drives to the new pc.  The Windows 2000 
information on the hard disk relates to the OLD pc not the new one, so 
things like motherboard drivers are blind now... OF course it won't 
boot... The only way to get away with what you friend did, is to have 
exactly the same hardware on 2 pc's then you can swap the hdd's all day 
and both systems will boot w/o a problem.

otherwise what he can do is "REINSTALL" windows 2k on the new pc under a 
new folder of coures. not to mention that doing it this way will require 
a re-install of all his software...



Jon Tydda said the following on 4/8/2004 9:06 AM:

>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
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>Jon Tydda said the following on 4/8/2004 8:38 AM:
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>>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
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>nothing
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>>- he got to a black screen with a flashing white cursor. I suggested that
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>he
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>>boot off the Win2k cd and run the repair utility, which he did.
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>>So he rebooted again, and it's still going to the black screen and staying
>>there.
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>>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.
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>>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...
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-Francisco