nt server 4.0

I have done this very thing. One of my clients had a hard drive that was reaching capacity. They purchased a new, larger hard drive and I used Norton Ghost to xfer the entire hard drive. One important thing to remember with NT is that the system partiton can only be 4gb (NTFS) or 2gb (FAT16). You will probably need PQMagic to create a 4gb NTFS primary partition on the new hard drive, then xfer the system partiton from the old drive to the new. Boot the new hard drive and use Disk Administrator to create any extra partitions needed to utilize the full capacity of the new drive. You should also already have SP6 installed on the old drive.

If your controller types are the same try this first. Backup to tape install nt on new server to directory called nt-temp, boot to that, restore tape to that server which will resore to winnt, reboot and it should with a but of luck boot with no problem. If it hasn't you've only lost a bit of time. Ghosting is onother way

It depends. If you are going to restore to the same server, just a larger hard drive, you can connect the new harddrive as a slave and format it using disk administrator. Then use xcopy (source) (destination) /s/c/h/e/r/k (use /o if you need to keep acl's). If copying from one server to a totally different server then use robocopy from the resource kit. Both are safe, easy,and one very special added feature: cost effective (free!!!). One more utility you can use is xxcopy. This is a free utility as well, and works great, but a bit more complicated to use.

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