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changing hard drives on win adv. server

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by wdeklerk

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Hi all
Is there a way that i can replace my present hard drive on the server (win 2000 advanced server) with the minimum down time, and so that i do not have to configure the server again? I am fast running out of space on the c:\int.pub as i have a fast growing database.
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1) I have an additional hard drive scsi as "d" where the complete pc is backed up.
2) My present hdd is divided into three partitions.
3) The server is host to an intranet page, on which i am running the database on. (SQL)

any suggestions??????

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by jerrym mcse+i / a+

Hi,
Often when you buy a new hard drive you get a disk with it. While I don't suggest that you load the drive software it will also have a utility that will sector copy all partitions and files to your new drive. If you don't have this disk then there are 3rd party utilities that do this. Drive Copy, partition magic, norton..etc... the quickest way I know of to do what you want..
Thankyou for the post....jer

by duskos

When you say replace disk, I assume you don't want to add another disk because that would be the easiest. You could use the new space to add it to your existing partition (must be NTFS) to make a spanned volume.

If you really would like to replace your disk, I'd recommend that you make a mirrored volume of your boot partition and backup of other partitions.

When everything is in synch, break the mirror, put your new disk to be disk 0, boot from it, make partitions as you like and restore other partitions.

by jereg

I agree with answer 2. If you didn't get a RAID array on this server(?), the easiest way is detailed in #2.

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