How to repair Win 2000?

[Ayman Altounji]

Hi,
I am trying to manage the situation that hard drive crashed and I need to make recovery from full backup - to boot up from Win 2000 CD,and to choose repair in win 2000 setup. But, after choosing "Repair", the message "Setup did not find any hard drive installed. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. ..." appears. So win 2000 setup probably cannot see SCSI hard drive and I need SCSI driver (at initial phase of win 2000 setup, there is an option to install such a driver from diskette). So my questions are: where can I obtain SCSI driver for ML370? Or is another possibility to recover win 2000 after disk failure on ML370?

Thank you

Regards

Petr Nalevka

[Ayman Altounji]

The Windows 2000 repair utility that runs from the Windows 2000 CD can only repair an existing install in a Windows 2000 partition on the hard drive. The repair utility must find an existing partition on the hard drive that the OS was installed into. The utility then checks the files in the OS partition with what is on the CD, and replaces files that are missing or damaged.

The Windows 2000 repair utility can not repair the OS, if no Windows 2000 partiton exitst on the hard drive. When no partition exist, you must perform a fresh install of the OS. See the Compaq Engieering white papers on installing Windows 2000 on Compaq servers at this web address.
http://www5.compaq.com/partners/microsoft/windows2000/whitepapers.html

After the OS is installed and booting, you then restore the program and data files from your backup. If you are going to restore the entire OS and installed programs from the full backup, make sure the OS that was backed up, is the exact same one and has the exact same driver configuration as the current running OS. If you overwrite the current OS, with a version that is not configured correctly for the hardware it will be running on, the OS may fail to boot or become unstable.