need Win2k system restore help

[Will]

I've done some searchnig and can't find any help for my particular
situation. I did a full backup (including system state) of a 20GB
drive that had Win2k installed on a FAT32 partition. I have a new,
larger harddrive (60GB) that I want to restore my Win2k backup. I did
a full install of Win2k from the CD first and noticed that it formated
the install partition with NTFS. I then tried to do a restore from my
backup but I noticed that the restore would fail when restoring some of
the last files (I think they may have been system state). When I
rebooted after that the system would start to boot Win2k then I saw a
blue screen briefly then the system would reboot doing this over and
over.

So my question is: do I need to format my install partition in the same
filesystem type as the backup (FAT32)? If so, how do I do this using
the Win2k install CD?

 

[Dennis Langton]

1. You need the same file system.

2. You can't format a hard drive over 30MB as FAT32 using Windows 2000.

 

[Will]

Thanks for the reply. What I've discovered is that during the ntbackup
restore the ntbackup program is dying before it can finish the restore.
BTW, I ended up using a Win98 CD to format the drive with fat32 then
installed Win2k over it. Then I tried to restore my previous sytem
backup and that's when ntbackup dies (restoring files in C:\WinNT)

 

[Will]

Another update. After I had ntbackup die during the last 30 files of a
full system restore I rebooted and logged in as admin again. I then
tried ntbackup restore of just the c:\WinNT dir and the system state
files. This time ntbackup restore worked and when I rebooted again all
was well. So it appears as thought the ntbackup on the fresh Win2k
install is buggy but will restore enough code that if run again after a
partial restore and reboot will work properly.
And to think this only took me 6 hours. 8^/

 

[Will]

One other data point: the version of Win2k that I had done the
original system backup on had SP4 on it. So it could be that ntbackup
or associated libraries were updated as compared to the WIn2k I
installed off the CD as part of the restore process. Perhaps this is
why ntbackup worked properly after the partial restore.