[sdw2003] Windows 2000 help

[Bob]

Hi Nelson,

Ahhhhh......yes, that is why you NEVER ever get a motherboard with a
built-in   
raid controller.  I've seen this happen too many times and the chances
of   
getting the same motherboard with the same controller are pretty much
nil. Using   
another controller will normally produce the 'blue screen of death'. I
recently   
had the same issue with a new client but was able to install an add-on

Adaptec 2100 raid card and the system was able to stay up long enough in
order   
for the system to register the card and install the drivers.  Once that
happens,   
you can then move the drive(s) over to the new raid card and new
motherboard and   
run the "repair".  I've done this a handful of times always with 100%
success   
rate.

good luck

-bob



-----Original Message-----
From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
On Behalf Of Nelson Siqueiros
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:16 AM
To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
Subject: RE: [sdw2003] Windows 2000 help

Bob,
	After replacing the motherboard we tried avoiding reloading the
OS by trying repairing it but the hardware issue we had was with the
on-board RAID controller and it seemed to corrupted the data on the
disks and was unable to repair it so had to do a reload of the OS.  I
appreciate your input.

Thanks
-Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:13 AM
To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
Subject: RE: [sdw2003] Windows 2000 help

Hi Nelson,

Do you happen to still have the an original hard drive of the 2000
server    
that had hardware issues or did you wipe it/them out???  If so, you can

use the drive with the new hardware but run a Windows 'Repair' in which

it'll reload the operating system and detect the new hardware, but it'll

retain all of your software and settings.


thanks

-bob


-----Original Message-----
From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
On Behalf Of Nelson Siqueiros
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:03 AM
To: sdw2003 at mattware.com
Subject: [sdw2003] Windows 2000 help

We have a couple of older Windows 2000 running IIS for web sites and FTP
and last week one of them had a hardware issues so we had to replace the
motherboard and reload the OS from scratch.  We had backups of the data
but had to reconfigure IIS, etc.  Well, after a couple of days of
configuring we got to the point to configure Network Load Balancing to
put it back in production and unlike every version of 2003 NLB is only
available on Windows 2000 Advance Server.  OK.. so I got the media and
license and go to do an upgrade and come to find out that there is no
direct upgrade path from 2000 server to 2000 Advance Server.  So my
question is... has anyone of you ran into an issue like this before?
I've been searching on the Internet for a solution that will allow me to
upgrade to Advance server or at least be able to use NLB on my current
install but haven't had any luck.  Any input would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

-Nelson

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