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by dontop

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I would like to replace the three 18 gig SCSI hard drives in our Compaq Proliant NT 4 server with three new 36 gig drives to double our total disk space. Is there an easy way to do this using cloning? If not, what is the best way to move all of the current data from the old drives to the new drives and minimize downtime.

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by banyanman

I've been very successful with using Power Quest Drive Pro for a complete image. This will allow you to do a complete system image and then lay it back down on your new hard drives. The only draw back is that this can be a slow process. I've found that doing an image of the C with drive pro and then restoring data from tape to any other drives installed, seems to work a little faster. Hope this helps.

by gary mcp

In the past, I've used Ghost for this. Just set up the two drives as master/slave, boot from floppy and ghost has the option of cloning one to the other. It'll be a straight copy, so you don't have to go through the intermediary step of creating an image file first.

Just make sure you have a good backup before doing it.

Hope this helps,
Gary

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