"Harald Elsässer" wrote:

> I installed another harddisk as boot-disk, installed NT once more, had the
> ´old, not correctly working NT´ on the second disk.
> Then I restore the old NT-System from tape to the second harddisk.
> This time no error-messages at all.
> I made the restored harddisk again the boot-disk, booted from this one.
>
> When I restarted the system, all necessary icon were on the desktop, but a
> lot is missing:
> - all printers do not exist
> - graphics-drivers do not exist (only VGA-Mode availabe)
> it seems, as if no registry-entries were restored.....
>
> How can a get the original state of the NT-installation from the correct
> tape ??
>
> Thanks
> Harald

AFAIK, the restoration is only as good as what had been backed up
when the tape was made. If additional system devices, applications,
etc., had been installed subsequent to the backup, then these must be
er-installed. There is no simpler way of restoring the Registry for a
system that is more advanced than what had been originally backed up.

"Ghostrider" <-00-@fitron.142> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Thanks, Ghostrider,
for Your quick answer :-)

> AFAIK, the restoration is only as good as what had been backed up
> when the tape was made. If additional system devices, applications,
> etc., had been installed subsequent to the backup, then these must be
> er-installed. There is no simpler way of restoring the Registry for a
> system that is more advanced than what had been originally backed up.
sure
But all the software and device had been installed long before the backup
was made...
At the moment, when the backup was made, all devices and application worked
fine.
I´m sure, all these registry-entries, settings etc. are on the backup-tape,
but they do net get restored :-(

thx
harald

You said that you re-installed WinNT on the new disk. Did you
install it in c:\WinNT, or in some other directory? I believe that
you must install the temporary copy elsewhere so that the backed
up stuff can go into C:\WinNT without interfering with the current
operating system.


"Harald Elsässer" wrote in message
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> Hi @all,
> the harddisc of the Windows- NT4.0 - Workstation of a friend died.....
>
> He has a streamer-tape and a complete backup of his system including
> registry.
> I reinstalled Windows-NT on a new harddisk, installed the tape driver and
> restored the complete tape (about 1 GB), marked ´restore registry´.
>
> The restore procedure worked about an hour, result: about seven failures,
> ntbackup could not overwrite some truetype-files (ttf) but nothing else.
> I hoped, the problem would be solved.
> But windows couldn´t boot.
>
> Second try:
> I installed another harddisk as boot-disk, installed NT once more, had the
> ´old, not correctly working NT´ on the second disk.
> Then I restore the old NT-System from tape to the second harddisk.
> This time no error-messages at all.
> I made the restored harddisk again the boot-disk, booted from this one.
>
> When I restarted the system, all necessary icon were on the desktop, but a
> lot is missing:
> - all printers do not exist
> - graphics-drivers do not exist (only VGA-Mode availabe)
> it seems, as if no registry-entries were restored.....
>
> How can a get the original state of the NT-installation from the correct
> tape ??
>
> Thanks
> Harald
>
>

Hi Pegasus,

"Pegasus (MVP)" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> You said that you re-installed WinNT on the new disk. Did you
> install it in c:\WinNT, or in some other directory? I believe that
> you must install the temporary copy elsewhere so that the backed
> up stuff can go into C:\WinNT without interfering with the current
> operating system.
Yes an no....
The first try was, that I installed Windows on drive C in C:\WinNT and
restored to C:, so that all the restored files should overwrite the
oriiginals.
The second try was, that I installed Windows on drive C in C:\WinNT and had
a second harddisk as drive D: , so that I restored to D:, so that all the
restored files should go to d:\WinNT.

Both versions didn´t restore my registry.

But I will also try to install windows on a new harddisk again, now for
example in c:\NT40 an restore to C:

Any further hints.

Thanks
Harald

"Harald Elsässer" wrote in message
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> Hi Pegasus,
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:bohgr9$24oc$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au...
> > You said that you re-installed WinNT on the new disk. Did you
> > install it in c:\WinNT, or in some other directory? I believe that
> > you must install the temporary copy elsewhere so that the backed
> > up stuff can go into C:\WinNT without interfering with the current
> > operating system.
> Yes an no....
> The first try was, that I installed Windows on drive C in C:\WinNT and
> restored to C:, so that all the restored files should overwrite the
> oriiginals.
> The second try was, that I installed Windows on drive C in C:\WinNT and
had
> a second harddisk as drive D: , so that I restored to D:, so that all the
> restored files should go to d:\WinNT.
>
> Both versions didn´t restore my registry.
>
> But I will also try to install windows on a new harddisk again, now for
> example in c:\NT40 an restore to C:

Do note that Windows, at least as of NT 4.0 if not earlier, is not required
to be in C.

My W2K is currently in K, when I installed it on a system that already had
NT 4.0 on H:. The H: version was installed when the one installed on D: was
corrupted somehow, but I didn't want to write over all the files on D:.

It can install in to a logical partition, or extended partition, or whatever
they call them.

-- glen

Hi Harald,

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 22:01:04 +0100, "Harald Elsässer"
wrote:

>Hi @all,
>the harddisc of the Windows- NT4.0 - Workstation of a friend died.....
>
>He has a streamer-tape and a complete backup of his system including
>registry.
>I reinstalled Windows-NT on a new harddisk, installed the tape driver and
>restored the complete tape (about 1 GB), marked ´restore registry´.
>
>The restore procedure worked about an hour, result: about seven failures,
>ntbackup could not overwrite some truetype-files (ttf) but nothing else.
>I hoped, the problem would be solved.
>But windows couldn´t boot.

Best way I know is the following:
Install NT in a directory with a new name - "NTback" or something,
than install the tape-driver and restore your old system. Afterwards
you should be able to boot your new, old system. Now you can delete
"NTback".
If it's not working, there must be something with the tape or the
backup was not complete.

Good luck
Klaus