Authoritative Restore

[Guest]

I am trying to do an AD restore on different hardware. I am using the
NTBackup to accomplish this. The following are my steps:
1. Complete the install of the OS.
2. Disable all unused NIC's (none are used so all disabled).
3. Create all same paritions drive letters as on the original DC.
4. Disable the reboot on Error option in system properties.
5. Create a EDR (Emergency Repair Disk) copying the entire contents of the
Winnt\repair folder and subfolders to another location on the C Drive
(incased needed for recovery).
6. Copy the boot files (boot.ini, NTDetect.com, ntldr) in case needed.
7. Also copy files (hal.dll, kernel32.dll, ntdll.dll and ntoskrnl.exe) to
the newly created BootFiles directory.
8. Restore the system state using NTBackup.
9. Uninstall the remaining NICs (except for the loopback)
10. Run the ntdsutil command from the command prompt.
11. Type authoritative restore
12. Type restore database
13. Reboot the system

After doing this my system just freezes while rebooting loading the OS.

I have gotten the blude screen with the invalid bood device error.

Can anyone help me get thorught this?

Thanks,
Erin

 

[persillade]

Look at: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263532

Keep in mind that restoring to different hardware will not always be
successful.

Chris Malone

 

[Guest]

I Tried this. It did not do anything for me. Looking at the steps I
originally identified, is there anything missing? When doing a restore to
different hardware, is there anything I should be taking from the original
servers nightly backup (ie. utility parition information)?

I am really stuck here.

Thanks,
Erin