Volume Sets

[Aaron D Kulick]

Dear TSP & NT Admins

I have the following system:

NT 4.0 Server
2 4.5GB SCSI HD
-System Pation 1.0GB C:
-Volume Set 7.GB D: Spanning both DISK 0 and DISK1

The system boots to the logon splash screen and then dies and dumps to the
BSD. In VGA mode it locks up at the logon splash screen, nothing. The
system has a combination of Service Pack 3 and 4 on it as I attempted to
restore the system with a repair. An error in and of itself which I now
regret.

What I would like to know is the following:

Is there any information in the registry that deals with the Volume Sets,
if so where is it? (e.g. controls or governs the volume set)

If so is it possible to recreate this information via the registry without
an emergency disk?

Regardless, I am wondering how I can browse/edit the registry of a system
that is off-line?

Assuming this line of thinking fails, I would like opinions on the
feasability of restoring the system via and NT Server Upgrade?

Unfortunately I cannot ghost the NT System partion, ghost reports several
errors in the NT log and then ignores the partition completely. The
Volume Set, however, has been successfully ghosted, but I am unsure
whether it is even intact.

As you can see my quandry is rather severe, I have no ERD and my backup is
horribly out of date.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely

Aaron

Aaron D. Kulick
Technical Support
Economics Department
Univeristy of California at Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616
530.752.3029
kul...@econ.ucdavis.edu

[Hemang Patel]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Aaron D Kulick wrote:

| The system boots to the logon splash screen and then dies and dumps to the
| BSD. In VGA mode it locks up at the logon splash screen, nothing. The
| system has a combination of Service Pack 3 and 4 on it as I attempted to
| restore the system with a repair. An error in and of itself which I now
| regret.

I had a very similar result when I tried to install SP4 on my
server. To get my server up again, I booted from the 3 floppies and
choose to repair an existing NT installation. I used the repair info
already on the disk since my repair floppy was out of date. I was
then left with a working non-SP3 NT installation.