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Name: rtstar
Date: December 12, 2003 at 06:16:42 Pacific
OS: NT Server
CPU/Ram: Forget it!
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How would I upgrade the hard drive on a NT server. I want to copy/clone the whole exisiting drive. Drive copy apparently doesn't work on NT server. Can ghost handle the fact that it will placed on a larger hdd?



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Name: njs
Date: December 12, 2003 at 06:23:03 Pacific
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You cant just replace a drive on a NT4 box, unless its an identical model.
The easy way out would be add the new drive on the next segment of your IDE/SCSI chain.


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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer
Date: December 12, 2003 at 08:30:11 Pacific
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Sure you can replace a drive on a NT server, no problem as long as you understand a few things.

First rule is if you have NT OS on "c:" which mean boot and system partition, you CAN NOT exceed 7.8gig. This is a well known and documented bios boot limit bug in NT. So you can't clone your [guesssing] 4gig drive to a 128gig drive for example.

Next issue is you don't clone using any clone software from WITHIN NT. This requires the server version which is MUCH more expensive.

I am more familiar with Ghost and have done this no problem. I would expect the same with Drive image or any clone copy software.

You have both drives in the system. You boot up on a boot diskette containing the clone software. You do partition to partition [NOT drive to drive] cloning. You can resize on the fly this way. For example you can take the 4gig boot/system partition and make it 7.5gig [I do less to be on the safe side] on the new drive. Once complete shutdown.

Remove the old drive and replace it with the new. Do NOT leave both drives in the system!. Boot up on the new drive and get into NT. Use NT disk administrator to partition and format the rest of the new drive.

Advantage of this is if your clone fails for some reason you can always put the original drive back in to get up and running until you figure out what when wrong.

Best of luck and never believe everything you read here until you get a couple of answers.


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