I just bought a new hard drive for my home server. Can I just copy the contents of the old HD containing Win2k3 to my new HD? Also, will everything work just as normal after copying? Also, is there a tool or program that will do this for me in DOS? Thank you for your time and nay help you can offer. -Matt

If you can get your hands on a copy of Norton Ghost it will make an exact copy for you. hope this helps TJ

thank you.

if you dont use norton ghost and try to do that yourself you can/will run into NT loader problems, the partitions HAVE to be formatted to the same file system allocation table as it was previous and it *HAS* to have the same blocksize nad all that crap, or else it wont boot all the way if you had a NTFS partition with win2003 and load it on a fat32 partition it wont boot peroperly, because it cannot access the main partition properly, it expects certain permissions and crap, it cant validate them, it wont load, even thought booting up with a windows 98 boot disk and checking the drives contents still shows the files, it just expects it to be a specific way. (same goes for other NT operating systems) i have encountered this problem a few times and finally figured out the problem :) norton ghost saves the day :)