Thanks in advance for any help. Wednesday, August 1, PM. Wednesday, August 8, PM. Any ideas? PCs being backed up: Desktop 1 - 1. Cheers, Graham. Thursday, August 2, PM. Friday, June 27, PM. Hope this helps anyone. Best wishes,. Sunday, June 29, PM. Saturday, January 17, PM. For future reference I would like to add my solution to this problem.
WHS would freeze at the point where acpitabl. They all tested OK. Next step was to pull all the drives except for the OS drive. Switching hypervisors is like taking the drive out of one physical computer and putting it into another computer.
All the hardware is new, and the OS will have to recalculate itself. Then from VMware to Hyper-V, that's the second hardware change. Likely the pre-existing hardware configurations are for previous hardware. You need to set up a third for Virtualbox's hardware.
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Our experts volunteer their time to help other people in the technology industry learn and succeed. Plans and Pricing. Contact Us. Certified Expert Program. It is for this reason that I always maintain a system backup. I test it twice each year so that I can tell my client with confidence that the worst system outage he could expect would be half a day. See below for further comments. Would be better to go back to a stable state, and test further impact of SP2 Would be better to go back to a stable state, and test further impact of SP2 on your system with a test system.
We resolved the issue. After I replaced the original driver with the updated driver in the original Win2k3 installation, the server booted into the original installation and I confirmed the disk errors in the event viewer. So, when I noted that the current RAID driver at HP was a later date than the one we had originally installed, i concluded it was worth a try. Side note: The mirror-drive was defective to the point where we could not write to the partition in console recovery.
Ultimately, the mirror-drive had to be reformatted and resynch'ed. The information in this thread is outstanding Hello Macesr1, what is your question? Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Pegasus MVP. Pegasus is right, before every major update, you would do a backup. Here they are again: 1.
If the OP tests this method first then he will be safe. OK - I got the point - find a way to test the SP before installing it on the production system. I've got a backup, but I would need to install the opsys and the backup program in order to restore the original opsys, wouldn't I? Secure Vizion. All, this person's issue was that they could not boot past the splash screen, and they were looking for a way to bring up the server WITHOUT reloading.
For all of your chastising about not following proper testing proceedures before performing an upgrade, none of you answered their question. My server is still not booting when the RAID array is attached. Symptoms are blank screen after splash screen and Safe mode hangs at acpitabl.
When I power off server and array and power on server only it boots just fine.
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