Help needed with Directory Services Restoration

I'm doing some disaster preparation. I have a lab server onto which I've installed Windows 2000 and have promoted it to a DC.

I then took a system state backup from our main production DC and restored it to the lab server via ntbackup in Directory Services Restore Mode.

All ok so far.

Upon rebooting the lab server now freezes when the progress bar on the Win2k startup screen (the screen that says Windows 2000 Server Family).

This happens each time.


The two systems are not idential - our main production server is a dual xeon system that's about 4 years old.

The lab server we're using is a basic celeron system that we use for testing lab environments.

In any case - if there was a disaster situation the server we'd be restoring active directory/system state to would be a completely different system to our production system.



Any ideas what's up?

 

a Disaster recovery server should match the hardware of the production server. Registry values of the old hardware are messing up during boot on the newer, less powerful hardware.