replace system/boot disk in win2k

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Elvyn Gutierrez

Hi. I have win 2000 SP2 server with bad sectors on the system/boot disk. How
is the safest/shortest way to replace this disk?. Is there any document that
explain this in details?.

Thanks in advance
 
Elvyn Gutierrez said:
Hi. I have win 2000 SP2 server with bad sectors on the system/boot disk. How
is the safest/shortest way to replace this disk?. Is there any document that
explain this in details?.

Thanks in advance
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Hre is my opinion:

If possible, put the drive and the replacement drive into another machine.

The replacement drive must be formatted but no drive letter assigned...

then copy the entire old drive to the new one.

When the new drive is put back in the server...
with a standard dos boot floppy you can run fdisk and be sure the
primary partition is set active.

it should boot up and work ok

at worst you'd have to do a fixmbr or fixboot from the repair console


because the original drive has bad sectors using the "copy" option
is better than using a "ghosting" utility
 
If a cloning utility recognizes the file system, then it clones it and tries
to recover bad clusters, so it's better than any copy/xcopy.
Sector-to-sector cloning needs additional configuration steps.
 
Jetro said:
If a cloning utility recognizes the file system, then it clones it and tries
to recover bad clusters, so it's better than any copy/xcopy.
Sector-to-sector cloning needs additional configuration steps.
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here's what i found on xxcopy
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy36.htm

although i do not know how the latest version of "ghost" handles
bad clusters...i'm sure it;s covered in the documentation

however i have definately heard of imaging utilitites that copy over bad
clusters
in such a way that they appeared to be bad clusters in the new drive
 
If I got correctly, xxcopy is an alternative to MS xcopy and competes with
it in daily copy-for-backup operations since Novell era. As an author wrote,
"xxcopy has never been designed for and will never be made for disk
imaging".
Never heard about this utility. Never used it. Neither heard nor met the
xcopy and Novell problems as well as the others mentioned. Never had the
problems with Ghost. Never would recommend the "Windows" utility of unknown
developer.
 
Jetro said:
If I got correctly, xxcopy is an alternative to MS xcopy and competes with
it in daily copy-for-backup operations since Novell era. As an author wrote,
"xxcopy has never been designed for and will never be made for disk
imaging".
Never heard about this utility. Never used it. Neither heard nor met the
xcopy and Novell problems as well as the others mentioned. Never had the
problems with Ghost. Never would recommend the "Windows" utility of unknown
developer.
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xxcopy is pretty highly rated
but it definately copies files and does *not* image the drive

since the drive has bad clusters it would be better (IMHO) not to image the
drive
unless the imaging utility is specifically designed to handle such
 
Maybe I should try it myself.

As to high rates, I could find exaggerated Novell comments only - no wonder!
:)
 
I did tried last night to create an image using drive image pro wich is the
utility that I have available. It did not work. how about the procuderes
using classic backup-restore ?

TIA
 
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