Windows 2000 restore from offline backup

[DT]

Guys,

I have an old Windows 2000 with some specialised PLC applications installed
which has had a drive failure and wont boot. I've managed to get a backup
of almost all files (minus 20-30 files in the \windows\system32\dllcache
folder and a few in the \system32 folder) by connecting the drive to another
system. Is there a way to restore this system? I was thinking I might be
able to install Windows 2000 to another drive using a different \windows
folder and restore what I have, and manually replace the missing/corrupted
files and the editting the boot.ini file to boot into the restored version
of windows. Does this sound feasible?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Darren

 

[Ghostrider]

Guys,

I have an old Windows 2000 with some specialised PLC applications installed
which has had a drive failure and wont boot. I've managed to get a backup
of almost all files (minus 20-30 files in the \windows\system32\dllcache
folder and a few in the \system32 folder) by connecting the drive to another
system. Is there a way to restore this system? I was thinking I might be
able to install Windows 2000 to another drive using a different \windows
folder and restore what I have, and manually replace the missing/corrupted
files and the editting the boot.ini file to boot into the restored version
of windows. Does this sound feasible?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Darren

Probably will not work. The Windows OS is far more complicated to allow
manual manipulation to restore the function of appications that need to
be registered into the Windows Registry. In other words, the task is more
than replacing missing and corrupted cells but also manual editing of the
Windows Registry. The better solution would be to re-install Windows 2000
with SP's and updates and then all of the desired applications. And this
time around, use Ghost or TrueImage to generate a hard disk image file
for restoration purposes.

 

[Xandros]

It sounds like a lot of work that is likely to prove fruitless. However if I
had time on my hands and an inclination to give it a try this is what I'd
do.
1. Install Windows 2000 and updates.
2. Install all the applications that where on the previous system.
3. Connect the drive with the backup files on it. Hopefully these we copied
to a hard drive and not a CD or DVD else you will have to remove the
read-only attribute from them that was set when you burned the files to the
optical disc :-(
4. Boot the computer with a Bart's Pe CD (or similar see here
http://www.ubcd4win.com/downloads.htm ) and use this boot CD to copy your
backup files to their required locations.
5. Boot the computer with a Windows 2000 CD and run a Repair Install.

After spending that many hours, with a high probability that it wouldn't
work, I think I would have been asking myself why I didn't just do a clean
reinstall?

 

[NoConsequence]

Guys,

I have an old Windows 2000 with some specialised PLC applications installed
which has had a drive failure and wont boot. I've managed to get a backup
of almost all files (minus 20-30 files in the \windows\system32\dllcache
folder and a few in the \system32 folder) by connecting the drive to another
system. Is there a way to restore this system? I was thinking I might be
able to install Windows 2000 to another drive using a different \windows
folder and restore what I have, and manually replace the missing/corrupted
files and the editting the boot.ini file to boot into the restored version
of windows. Does this sound feasible?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Darren

Why are you asking here? Did you notice this group is for XP and NOT
2000?

Ask elsewhere

 

[Malke]

Why are you asking here? Did you notice this group is for XP and NOT
2000?

Ask elsewhere

Why are *you* posting here? Did you notice that you never provide any
actual help to anyone?

There is a big difference between being a person who helpfully suggests
a better place to get an answer but who gives the answer if known in
spite of it being posted in the wrong ng and being just rudely
unhelpful. You are the latter. Why do you feel compelled to keep doing
this? (Rhetorical question - I don't really care why, I just wish you
would change your ways or leave.)


Malke

 

[NoConsequence]

Why are *you* posting here? Did you notice that you never provide any
actual help to anyone?

There is a big difference between being a person who helpfully suggests
a better place to get an answer but who gives the answer if known in
spite of it being posted in the wrong ng and being just rudely
unhelpful. You are the latter. Why do you feel compelled to keep doing
this? (Rhetorical question - I don't really care why, I just wish you
would change your ways or leave.)


Malke

Ah, did somebody get his feathers ruffled? Get over it. You want to
play with the big boys then grow up and get thicker skin

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Ah, did somebody get his feathers ruffled? Get over it. You want to
play with the big boys then grow up and get thicker skin

If you want to play with the big boys it helps to act a little more
grown-up.

 

[DT]

Thanks guys, I managed to get this working using the method I originally
proposed with very few problems. Had to reinstall Office to replace some
missing files and to re-register some DLL's but all else works fine.

To NoConsequence: Have you ever heard the phrase if you dont have anything
nice to say keep your mouth shut?

I posted hear as I thought I was more likely to get an answer than posting
in Windows 2000 groups. Sorry if this is bad ng etiqette but I was
desperate Also there are obvious similarities between windows 2000 and
XP that if someone had had luck with a similar issue under XP it would
almost certainly work with Windows 2000 as well.

Darren

 

[NoConsequence]

To NoConsequence: Have you ever heard the phrase if you dont have anything
nice to say keep your mouth shut?

Nope. You posted where you shouldn't have, and I called you on it.
Now your feelings are hurt. Get over it.

I posted hear as I thought I was more likely to get an answer than posting
in Windows 2000 groups. Sorry if this is bad ng etiqette but I was
desperate Also there are obvious similarities between windows 2000 and
XP that if someone had had luck with a similar issue under XP it would
almost certainly work with Windows 2000 as well.

Darren

So you ADMIT to posting in the wrong group, yet don't see anything
wrong with it. So I guess if a thief steals your car, you'd be OK
with it? I mean you know it's wrong, but that's OK.

Wrong is wrong. And YOU were wrong by posting here.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Nope. You posted where you shouldn't have, and I called you on it.
Now your feelings are hurt. Get over it.


So you ADMIT to posting in the wrong group, yet don't see anything
wrong with it. So I guess if a thief steals your car, you'd be OK
with it? I mean you know it's wrong, but that's OK.

Wrong is wrong. And YOU were wrong by posting here.

You need to spend more time playing outside.