[John Rogers]

From my days as a DBA working on Windows 2000 servers as far as I can remember we were never able to clone a boot drive, I.E. the C drive with it's MBR and such. While at NASSCO the server group tried to do that and all they ever got was a blue screen. It has been possible for years with Linux and Unix systems and we had a couple folks that were hired in with no Windows experience but lots of HP Unix experience and tried and tried and tried. Finally as part of our recovery procedures had to just admit to doing a new Win 2000 install!

Not surprising, I found a couple paragraphs in Oracle's recovery documentation about recovering servers saying Windows 2000 would require a new install!

If it were me, I would use a spare drive and after shutting everything down cleanly, install a new empty drive and do a fresh install and then put it away for safe keeping.