Restore to Dissimilar Hardware
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:26 pm
Is it possible to restore SBS 2003 to dissimilar hardware with AISBackup? If so, what's the best procedure to follow?
It is often possible to restore a backup to dissimilar hardware but some work should be done beforehand to enable all possible disk controllers or the new PC may produce a blue screen error, e.g. Stop 0x0000007B Inaccessible_Boot_Device. Updates may be made by hooking the restored disk up to another computer and then making the necessary registry and driver updates.
This scenario was discussed here:
http://www.aiscl.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=434
Some links from the above post no longer work, but this link should help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822052
Barry