Help. I am reinstalling win 2000. Formating drive and all.

david-ruby wrote on 2/1/2003, 10:15 AM

Is it necessary to reinstall mobo updates as well? I believe you do not have to reinstall bios or the such correct?
Had a server go down and my machines got attacked by a virus not protected by norton.
Now I am in hell with a session tonite and my server had my serial no. that I did not make a hardcopy of.
Can you say......IDIOT!!! ; )
Terrible about space shuttle. What is going on. Bad news all around us. North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan still, s. africa mad at us, and now the shuttle. Man what a great start to the year huh?
Oh yea and my server.......
DR

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Cheesehole wrote on 2/1/2003, 1:23 PM

>>>Is it necessary to reinstall mobo updates as well? I believe you do not have to reinstall bios or the such correct?

software updates that were installed in windows as drivers will need to be re-installed. BIOS updates will not need to be re-installed.

>>>Now I am in hell with a session tonite and my server had my serial no. that I did not make a hardcopy of.

hope you get everything working by then. after you get your system rebuilt, use Norton Ghost to make an image of your system drive. follow these guidelines to get the most out of it.

A) install system on a partition of its own. (5 or 6GB is plenty)
B) install all software on a second partition (use the rest of space your system drive)
C) store all personal data on the second partition (move My Documents, Favorites, etc..)
D) ghost the system drive and store on a CD
E) make periodic backups of personal data

using this method, you'll be able to restore your system any time without overwriting your data files.

david-ruby wrote on 2/1/2003, 2:35 PM

Thank you so much for your help cheesehole. ; )

david-ruby wrote on 2/1/2003, 2:49 PM

Is it ok to have norton products on a machine for studio work?
I thought these products might be a bad thing on daw rigs.

jboy wrote on 2/1/2003, 9:36 PM

Make sure you dont have a virus in your master boot record. You can rewrite it by entering Format C:/MBR-(it only takes a second), and then do -format C:/S/U-(I've been told the U command writes over files, or something like that. Good Luck with your re-install..

Cheesehole wrote on 2/1/2003, 10:40 PM

>>>Is it ok to have norton products on a machine for studio work?
I thought these products might be a bad thing on daw rigs.

good point on the MBR jboy. if you have an MBR virus you'll have to do that.

Norton ghost is just a dos based utility that comes with a lot of motherboards. (you don't need the full blown Ghost Enterprise edition or whatever)

you just boot off a floppy, then stick in a floppy with Ghost.EXE on it, and then run it. use Partition --> Image and you'll be prompted for a file name, or if you have a cd burner, you can have it burn your system image to a series of CD's. use maximum compression when it asks you to get the smallest file size possible.

if you don't use a cd burner, store the image on your second partition. that brings up another point... format your 1st and 2nd partitions FAT32, not NTFS. You need NTFS for your video drive, but not your system drive. using FAT32 ensures you'll have a partition accessible to Ghost to write your backup image. it can't write to NTFS. (but it can *read* NTFS partitions so if you already formatted NTFS, you can still use ghost but you'll need to store your image on CD-R's)

it may sound like a pain, but it gives you total freedom. at any time you can refresh your system partition. it's like having a giant undo button. the trick is to get your system working and get Vegas installed and anything else you will be using all working perfectly. THEN do the ghost. you'll never have to install Vegas again (until VV4 is release of course :)

also remember to keep all your user data on the second partition so you don't have to worry about overwriting it all if you restore the first partition from the ghost image.

this is definitely the way to go in a production environment. it only takes a few minutes to recover from a catastrophe, so your clients never have to know.

nolonemo wrote on 2/3/2003, 5:07 PM

cheesehole,

Good tip about moving favorites, etc. out of the system partition. (I have a separate system partition which I image once a week and before I install any new programs -- all apps are installed a different partition, except for rude apps that don't let you choose where they go. I actually save image on the secondary HD and also copy to another networked computer to avoid using a lot of DVD-Rs/CD-Rs on backup. Saved my ass after an install corrupted something yesterday afternoon!).

I'm assuming you accomplished moving default locations such as favorites by editing the registry. If so, can you tell me where you got the instructions (I assume a web site).

Thanks