HP B6960-90078 manual Other Windows Systems

Other Windows Systems

NOTE

WARNING

Disaster Recovery

Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

If you are recovering a Windows system other than Windows NT, install Windows into its original location, i.e. the same drive letter and directory as in the original system before the disaster. This information is stored in the SRD file.

During the installation, do not add the system to the previous location where the Windows domain resided, but add the system to a workgroup instead.

3.Install TCP/IP protocol. If DHCP was not used before the disaster, configure the TCP/IP protocol as prior to the disaster by providing the following information: hostname of the crashed client, its IP address, default gateway, subnet mask and DNS server. Make sure that the field labeled Primary DNS suffix of this computer contains your domain name

By default, Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 install the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) during the Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 setup.

4.Create a temporary disaster recovery account in the Administrators group. See “Adding or Deleting a User” on page 90. Note that the account must not had existed on the system before the disaster and that it will be removed at a later time during this procedure.

5.Log off and log in to the system using the newly created account.

6.If you are recovering a Windows NT system, install SP4 or later. No service packs are required for a successful disaster recovery of other Windows systems.

7.Execute the drstart.exe command from the

<Data_Protector_home>\Depot\drsetup\Disk1 (Windows Cell Manager) or \i386\tools\drsetup\Disk1 (Data Protector installation medium) directories.

If you have prepared the drsetup diskettes (see “Preparation” on page 451), you can also execute the drstart.exe command from the first diskette.

8.Drstart.exe first scans the current working directory, floppy and

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