[199] in winnt
Re: Mirror copy of NT partition from one hard drive to a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C. Kutney)
Fri Jul 24 14:12:12 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:09:20 -0400
To: STASIK@wccf.mit.edu
From: "Michael C. Kutney" <mkutney@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
Stefan,
I have had to recover EIDE hard drives with WinNT before and have also copied NT EIDE hard drives in the past. I have used ADSM a lot to help recover, but you don't necessarily need to do this or backup your 2GB drive for your job. Here is what I recommend:
****WARNING: This procedure works for EIDE drives with a PCI drive controller. I don't think it will change with any other controller such as a SCSI. Just make your boot.ini file have two NT boot options as I have mine here as shown in step 3.****
1. Install a basic/minimum (no network or application) NT on the new 4GB drive in a dummy directory, i.e., c:\winnt2 I would recommend formatting it NTFS too. I would also recommend disconnecting the 2GB drive temporarily during the installation. Also, make a "rdisk".
2. Hook up the 2GB drive again (now it's d: drive) and copy the entire content back to the 4GB c: drive. Don't overwrite any files in the root c: directory. You will now have the 4GB looking like the 2GB with winnt2
3. Edit the boot.ini file as follows (note that this assumes that NT was originally installed in c:\winnt on the 2GB drive):
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA m
ode]" /basevideo /sos
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT2="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT2="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA
mode]" /basevideo /sos
The original boot.ini would originally look like this on your new 4GB:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT2
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT2="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT2="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA m
ode]" /basevideo /sos
4. Now reboot and you will have the option to boot to the basic winnt2 or the complete winnt OS (which has all of your original applications and original registry/hives).
5. When you are comfortable that everything is working, go ahead and delete the winnt2 directory, but keep the boot.ini file intact since you may need it like this in the future for any OS problems where you need another OS copy installed. (I highly recommend all ADSM users change their boot.ini file to something like this because it makes a complete data recovery easier!)
In my opinion, this is the cheapest and safest way to switch drives, although you do have sit around and install NT once.
Good luck. Feel free to bother me via email if you have questions or need help.
Michael Kutney
PS I have done stuff like this about 10 times on various machines for various reasons, including your reason.
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