need Win2k system restore help

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wolfilash

I've done some searchnig and can't find any help for my particular
situation. I did a full backup (including system state) of a 20GB
drive that had Win2k installed on a FAT32 partition. I have a new,
larger harddrive (60GB) that I want to restore my Win2k backup. I did
a full install of Win2k from the CD first and noticed that it formated
the install partition with NTFS. I then tried to do a restore from my
backup but I noticed that the restore would fail when restoring some of
the last files (I think they may have been system state). When I
rebooted after that the system would start to boot Win2k then I saw a
blue screen briefly then the system would reboot doing this over and
over.

So my question is: do I need to format my install partition in the same
filesystem type as the backup (FAT32)? If so, how do I do this using
the Win2k install CD?
 
Actually, I just tried formatting my new drive with fat32 then
installed Win2k from CD which went fine. Then I rebooted and logged in
as administrator. I then did a ntbackup restore and what happens is
ntbackup dies just before it finishes restoring all the files in the C:
part of the backup (it dies restoring WinNT system files). I am really
confused as to how this is supposed to work. Am I supposed to boot off
the disk that I'm doing a full system restore to? I have not found any
info either on the google groups search or the MS knowlege base that
explictly deals with this. What I've read seems to indicate that what
I've done should work..
 
Another update. After I had ntbackup die during the last 30 files of a
full system restore I rebooted and logged in as admin again. I then
tried ntbackup restore of just the c:\WinNT dir and the system state
files. This time ntbackup restore worked and when I rebooted again all
was well. So it appears as thought the ntbackup on the fresh Win2k
install is buggy but will restore enough code that if run again after a
partial restore and reboot will work properly.
And to think this only took me 6 hours. 8^/
 
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