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On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
On 28/11/11 07:55, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Simon Waters wrote:Although Microsoft don't support W2K, or the process to backup and restore to new hardware, they do document it. It is basically install, restore backup, reinstall drivers you need to boot. The only daft gotcha I hit is that W2K chkdsk may run if it doesn't understand a partition, and will almost certainly make destructive modifications to disk in such circumstances after a 9 second pause.The one thing I don't really want to try is a re-install from scratch as I'd have to re-install QB and I suspect as it's now a very old version of QB it might be problematic.No the procedure is install to new hardware, restore backup from old hardware, so it keeps same SID and all that nonsense. The slipstreamed W2K was just to support the hardware for step 1, probably you can use pre-prepared images for your choice of virtual server. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694
Hm. Thanks.I'm somewhat plesantly surprised that virtualbox is running - currently doing a fresh install of w2K...
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4436 root 20 0 672m 592m 554m S 123 29.6 3:52.61 VirtualBox So there is hope for me yet! Cheers Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq