On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 07:34 +1100, James Harper wrote:
>
> Anyway, as someone else said I don't think the standard MBR code is
> smart enough to do anything sane if there is no active partition, which
> (for once :) is not the fault of Windows.
>
> > If I get a chance I'll have to play around with it
> > some more to see what happens.
>
> I for one would be grateful if you could find the time to do this, it
> would put my lingering doubt to bed too :)
>
My problem was definitely caused by my forgetting to set the active
partition (I did say that it's been a long time since I've worked with
MS systems at this level). For the archives, here are the steps that I
took to recover a Windows 2003 Small Business Server
* Install new disk (actually, in this case I just deleted/redefined the
Raid disk).
* Boot from the BartPE CD and start networking.
* Use DiskPart to define the partition(s):
GO->System->Storage->DiskPart
> select disk 0
> create part primary
> active
> assign letter=c
> quit
* Start a command prompt and format the drive:
GO->Command Prompt
> format c: /fs:ntfs /q
* Use bacula to restore all files onto the disk.
* Reboot
And I had my system back. There are still a couple of minor issues with
the windows restore (I'll start a new thread for those), but it looks
like our Bacula solution is ready to go.
Thanks for all the help.
/dwight
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