Xp Pro and windows 2003

[gs]

I am in the process of decommission for an windows 2003 server SP1. The
server has an sata drive partitioned with windows 2003 itself and holds old
retrospect data rbf files in one of the partition.

Do I have to anything before to move the drive to my xp pro PC and keep the
data there?
do I need to the following?
move the files to USB drive
get the SATA drive partitioned and formatted under XP pro
move from the usb drive the data back to the newly formatted Sata drive
or can I use partition magic 8 CD on XP PC to resize the SATA partition to
take up the free space?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I am in the process of decommission for an windows 2003 server SP1. The
server has an sata drive partitioned with windows 2003 itself and holds old
retrospect data rbf files in one of the partition.

Do I have to anything before to move the drive to my xp pro PC and keep the
data there?
do I need to the following?
move the files to USB drive
get the SATA drive partitioned and formatted under XP pro
move from the usb drive the data back to the newly formatted Sata drive
or can I use partition magic 8 CD on XP PC to resize the SATA partition to
take up the free space?

Windows XP can read the same file systems as Windows 2003
server can. You can certainly use PQMagic to resize the partition
if its CD recognises the SATA disk. Make sure to back up your
data first - accidents to happen . . .

 

[gs]

thank you. my concern is that sometimes ago I heard there were slight
differences in ntfs systems used in XP and windows 2003. So that has been
corrected? what about write operation from XP

 

[Herb Martin]

I am in the process of decommission for an windows 2003 server SP1. The
server has an sata drive partitioned with windows 2003 itself and holds old
retrospect data rbf files in one of the partition.

Do I have to anything before to move the drive to my xp pro PC and keep
the data there?
do I need to the following?
move the files to USB drive
get the SATA drive partitioned and formatted under XP pro

The formats for XP are the same.

One issue that is unlikely: XP doesn't support either software Mirros or
software RAID5 so these drives would need to be backed up or repartitioned
for the move.

 

[Herb Martin]

thank you. my concern is that sometimes ago I heard there were slight
differences in ntfs systems used in XP and windows 2003. So that has been
corrected? what about write operation from XP

I dual boot a couple of these regularly -- no problems.

 

[James W. Long]

hmm, how is it I have 2 mirrord drives under xp pro right now then.

 

[James W. Long]

oh software mirror/software raid 5. ok nevermind. I have a hardware
contoller built in on my asus.
sorry.

 

[Herb Martin]

oh software mirror/software raid 5. ok nevermind. I have a hardware
contoller built in on my asus.
sorry.

Hardware mirrors present to the OS as "just a drive".

It is one of the STUPID limitations of XP/pro that it doesn't support
"fault tolerant software RAID" -- this is the place where software
RAID is much more likely to be valuable.

 

[gs]

great to hear. so even 350GB drive as single basic primary partition is not
a problem?

 

[gs]

although Up itself does not support software raid, a majority of RAID
Controller built into the mainboard do use software driver and the CPU to
manage RAID

My home PC mainboard ASUS A8NVM-CSM is one example of hybrid RAID
controller. I have not tried and dared not tried partition magic on it as
I don't I think I can boot the CD with additional driver.

 

[Herb Martin]

great to hear. so even 350GB drive as single basic primary partition is
not a problem?

No, XP does NTFS just fine. Even Win2000 or NT could have done
this much.

Dynamic drives work on XP also. The only real difference is the lack of
fault tolerant software RAID support (mirror and RAID-5).