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Replace Win2k Server System Disk?

Asked by TunaMaxx in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: disk, loading, win2k

First off, I have searched and found that similar questions have already been asked, but none of the solutions work for me.

Close, but no cigar solutions include:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_20623953.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_20663593.html

Here's the (brief as possible) description of the problem:

I have Windows 2000 Server on a machine that runs a basic e-mail server (nothing fancy) and secondary DNS on an AD domain controlled by a different server. It's fully updated (SP4, etc) and is backed up nightly to the AD / primary DNS / etc. server nightly via Microsoft Backup.

The problems is a deteriorating system disk. It's nowhere near dead yet, but since I get the occasional "Bad Block" notice in the event logs, I want to replace it ASAP.

The system disk is one of two partions on the IDE drive. The second partion is mostly storage with some apps installed in an additional "Program Files" folder. I was hoping there would be some way to just clone the current system disk onto a replacement and swap them out, but so far nothing has worked.

I used Seagate's "DiscWizard 2003" for the first attempt. I installed the new drive as the Secondary Master, started Win2k and followed "DiscWizards 2003's" instructions to the letter. The computer restarted, DiskWiz did it's thing and then the computer rebooted. I shut down as instructed, swapped out the old drive and made the new one the Primary Master. I reconnected the power, and after the POST I was greeted with:

  Error Loading OS

It was late, so I swapped the old drive for the new, booted the computer smoothly and went home. More research told me I needed "Ghost" so I went out and got it today. I reinstalled the new drive as the Secondary Master again, deleted the partitions in the Disk Management console, and formatted the drive as NTFS with a 10GB partion.

I fired up Ghost, choose "Clone from drive to drive" and followed those instructions to the letter. Ghost rebooted the machine, copied the info across, and the rebooted once more. I shut down the computer, did the drive swap and rebooted. Amazingly, I got the exact same result as before:

  Error Loading OS

Figuring I have nothing to loose (I still have the original drive and the MS Backup) I booted off of the 4 floppy boot disk set, and used a current ERD to try and kick start the drive. Still no luck and another:

  Error Loading OS

So, does anyone know what I am missing or doing wrong? Or is there a better way? I really don't want to reinstall the OS and then restore from the MS backup... From everything I have read, I'll have all sorts of issues.

I never thought this would be this much grief!
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