From: Jane Loyless (jloyless_at_netbox.com)
Date: Fri Apr 02 1999 - 12:39:32 EST
At 11:38 AM 4/2/99 -0500, Robert_Huber_at_wellspringres.com wrote:
>> I used a parallel port tape drive to back up the 760, then restored it on
>> top of the 600's NT preload, loaded 600 specific drivers and utilities and
>> never looked back. I vaguely remember having to tinker with memory
>> locations to get my token ring card to work, but other than that, it went
>> fine.
>>
> [Huber, Robert] I'm not sure what you mean by back up and load
>over. Did you use a back up program to save the entire partition on the 760
>and then do a restore of the entire save on the 600, or a selective
>backup/restore, or copy/copy, or what?
>
I used the backup utility that's built into NT to back up the entire system
partition from the 760XL to tape and then restored the entire partition
>from tape *over* the existing preload on the 600.
I initially tried wiping the 600's drive, doing a minimal NT install (just
enough to be able to do the restore) and then restoring the 760 to the 600.
That didn't work (wouldn't even boot), so I reloaded the 600's preload and
then restored the backup of the 760 to the 600. Once the restore was
complete, I had to install the 600's drivers and its version of the
utilities to get all the pieces to work right.
Once I had the 600 up and running on the network, I copied the data
partition from the 760 over to the 600 via the network.
Whole thing took me an afternoon and part of an evening - a large part of
which was listening to the tape drive grind away. I probably should have
just Ghosted the 760 to a network drive and restored it to the 600, but
I've never actually used Ghost, and the tape drive was handy.
Jane
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