Need to SWAP OUT drives...

[Guest]

Have a 4 year old Windows 2000 Server running on 2 9 gig drives
(non-mirrored). Would like to switch out the primary and secondary drives and
add two 120GB hdd's that are mirrored. My Windows Server experience does not
include a task such as this. I'd like to know the best way to get all the
data off the old drives and on to the new drives.

Can I do it all with the "Backup Service" doing a full-backup or do I need a
3rd party tool to make things happen? Seeking advice.

Thanks,

- Rex

 

[Leythos]

Have a 4 year old Windows 2000 Server running on 2 9 gig drives
(non-mirrored). Would like to switch out the primary and secondary drives and
add two 120GB hdd's that are mirrored. My Windows Server experience does not
include a task such as this. I'd like to know the best way to get all the
data off the old drives and on to the new drives.

Can I do it all with the "Backup Service" doing a full-backup or do I need a
3rd party tool to make things happen? Seeking advice.

Before Symantec changed Ghost to the new version I would have said to
use GHOST to make a mirror copy of the old drive 0 to the new drive and
then copy the other files from drive 1 to a second partition on it -
then mirror the two new drives. I'm not sure about the new ghost app,
it's not by the same company that wrote Ghost which was then purchased
by Symantec.

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

Have a 4 year old Windows 2000 Server running on 2 9 gig drives
(non-mirrored). Would like to switch out the primary and secondary
drives and add two 120GB hdd's that are mirrored. My Windows Server
experience does not include a task such as this. I'd like to know the
best way to get all the data off the old drives and on to the new
drives.

Can I do it all with the "Backup Service" doing a full-backup or do I
need a 3rd party tool to make things happen? Seeking advice.

Thanks,

- Rex

You can do it with NTBackup in Windows 2000. If you have a tape drive
you can do the backup to tape. Or you can backup to another computer. Or
you can put in one of the new drives and backup to it. If you have
programs installed on the second drive then those programs will need to
be reinstalled to move them over. If just data then you reconfigure the
programs to look for data on C. You could also use Ghost to do the
process, with it you would image to another computer on the network.
Here is the basic process with NTBackup.

1. Backup all of C drive including System State.
2. Backup all of D drive.
3. Replace drives
4. Do a new install of 2000 Server to C drive
5. Partition and format D drive for now because you will restore to
it.
6. Restore the data from old D to new D.
7. Restore all of C including System State.
8. Reinstall programs as necessary and move data until everything is
loaded and working on the C drive.
9. Delete the partition on D.
10. Convert D and C to Dynamic Disks being certain to reboot 2 times
as directed when converting C.
11. Mirror C to the second drive.

This is the basic process. Good luck.

Leonard Severt
Microsoft Enterprise Support

 

[Eugene Taylor]

As a caveat the new ghost 9.0 does not support windows server.

 

[wanderer]

May I suggest that due to registry entries you will want to partitio
the first disk being restored to as c: and d:. Leave the 2nd driv
disconnected from power during these operations. Get c: and d
restored, then mirror drive 1 to drive 2.

It has been my experience working with Ghost versions previous to th
latest that when they say it doesn't work with server they mean i
doesn't work running it from inside w2k server. But if you boot up o
a boot disk and run it that way it will work. Problem comes in wit
the pagefile too small issue. Running w2k install and choosing repai
is how I have fixed this in the past


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wandere