Converting IDE RAID 1 to SATA RAID 1

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As I expected, I got the blue-screen inaccessible boot device message.

That is *so* braindead.

Excuse me?

It worked---flawlessly. But thanks for the comment anyway.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Excuse me?

You just proved my point.

It worked---flawlessly.

So it would have if you had loaded the driver during the boot up of the cloned drive.

 

[JonnyCab®]

That is *so* braindead.

You just proved my point.

*Which* "point"? Where did you have a "point"?

So it would have if you had loaded the driver during the boot up of the

cloned drive.

Please show me which post, in this thread, where you said that I should do
that.

Nevermind. I learned how to do this on my own. On each server, I ran a
full backup, installed the new SATA RAID controller, drives, and enclosure,
booted with the MaxBlast4 CD that I created the .ISO from Maxtor's site,
created and formatted the partitions on the SATA array, copied the
partitions from the IDE array, powered down, disabled the on-board IDE RAID
controller and removed the old IDE drives, booted back up, and rebooted when
Win2K asked me to do so after it had installed new hardware. From that
point forward, I ran full backups, both servers are up and running on 250GB,
16MB Maxtor drives, and the applications are actually running faster.

On the two servers that already had SATA RAID controllers, I ran a full
backup, replaced one old drive with the new one, rebuilt the array, powered
down, replaced the other old drive with the other new one, and rebuilt the
array again. Again, there were no problems with those servers after booting
and running full backups.

THAT is the help I'm offering to anyone who needs to do something like this.

As for you, you attacked both me and Arno, and did so without any reason or
real help. I've never plonked anyone before, but welcome to my new list of
self-appointed experts who offer more bitter attitude and self-importance
than help. Thanks, and seek some help for yourself, if you're even able to
take it from anyone else. Read back some of your other replies in this NG,
and ask yourself why you have no friends in life.

Arno, thanks. I appreciate your replies.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

*Which* "point"? Where did you have a "point"?

That you are completely and utterly braindead.

Please show me which post, in this thread, where you said that I should do that.

Thanks for the 100% proof that you are indeed braindead.

And in case there are more braindeads here: <cough> <cough>

If you can install the driver on the original then obviously you can do the same on the clone.
It is utter braindead to install on the original and then clone *AGAIN* when the clone
already exists and that clone is indistinguishable from the original.


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