ASR Formatting D Drive
I am trying restore an ASR (2003 SBS) to a newer machine. It has 2 drives like the old machine. The first thing I see that looks wrong is on the screen "To restore ... Setup must delete all of the partitions listed below:", I see both my C and D drives listed:
953968 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
1907727 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
x and y are the sizes of my C and D
if you click C to continue, the ASR formats the C drive, restores its temp windows copy, THEN FORMATS THE D drive, then starts ntBackup which asks for your backup (which was on the D Drive). While formatting the messages appears:
Formatting volume \DosDevices\D: ...
I tried disabling the D drive in BIOS, running ASR until it asked for the backup. There I booted, re-enabled the D drive, and let setup restart. Setup reinstalled the temp windows copy, then reformatted the D drive.
I am trying VMWare's ESXi on another machine. I created a VM with 2 disks and booted ASR. I do not get tyhis problem.
Note: I am using a USB floppy on the new machine.
Is there some way to tell ASR not to format the D drive?
953968 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
1907727 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
x and y are the sizes of my C and D
if you click C to continue, the ASR formats the C drive, restores its temp windows copy, THEN FORMATS THE D drive, then starts ntBackup which asks for your backup (which was on the D Drive). While formatting the messages appears:
Formatting volume \DosDevices\D: ...
I tried disabling the D drive in BIOS, running ASR until it asked for the backup. There I booted, re-enabled the D drive, and let setup restart. Setup reinstalled the temp windows copy, then reformatted the D drive.
I am trying VMWare's ESXi on another machine. I created a VM with 2 disks and booted ASR. I do not get tyhis problem.
Note: I am using a USB floppy on the new machine.
Is there some way to tell ASR not to format the D drive?
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I went into the .sif file created on the diskette. First I found the buses section:
[BUSES]
1=1,3
and added the line:
2=1,3
Next I went to the [DISKS.MBR] section and changed
2=1,1,1,0xf84ef84e,512,63,
to
2=1,2,1,0xf84ef84e,512,63,
This mostly worked. The first screen still showed both hard drives, warning it will format both of them, but only formatted my C drive. The backup was there on the D drive when ASR requested it.
Obviously this method is not officially supported. If anybody knows were the diskette file layouts are documented, please comment.
[BUSES]
1=1,3
and added the line:
2=1,3
Next I went to the [DISKS.MBR] section and changed
2=1,1,1,0xf84ef84e,512,63,
to
2=1,2,1,0xf84ef84e,512,63,
This mostly worked. The first screen still showed both hard drives, warning it will format both of them, but only formatted my C drive. The backup was there on the D drive when ASR requested it.
Obviously this method is not officially supported. If anybody knows were the diskette file layouts are documented, please comment.
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