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From: Neil Rashbrook on 24 May 2010 07:51
How do you recommended to carry out a hard disk upgrade? Having failed
to use a cloning tool to copy the drive, I am now considering using
software mirroring to duplicate the OS on to the new disk, then removing
the old disk from the mirror and extending the partition.
From: Cliff Galiher - MVP on 24 May 2010 08:11
Because software mirroring actually changes the partition, I'd recommend
against this process. If something goes wrong then moving back could be
very cumbersome.

What cloning tool did you try and how did it fail? That would still be the
best approach if we can find the problem.

-Cliff


"Neil Rashbrook" <neil(a)parkwaycc.co.uk> wrote in message
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> How do you recommended to carry out a hard disk upgrade? Having failed to
> use a cloning tool to copy the drive, I am now considering using software
> mirroring to duplicate the OS on to the new disk, then removing the old
> disk from the mirror and extending the partition.

From: Neil Rashbrook on 24 May 2010 09:45
Cliff Galiher - MVP wrote:

> What cloning tool did you try and how did it fail? That would still
> be the best approach if we can find the problem.

The cloning tool I tried was Ghost 2003 and the cloned disk would not
boot correctly. It boots in Safe Mode with Networking, but when I tried
to boot normally I found that none of the SQL Express instances would
start and the server would reboot before the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen could
appear.
From: mct on 24 May 2010 10:01
If you do this you need to be very careful to copy the MBR to the new disk.
Mirroring won't automatically do this, at least not in 2003.

"Neil Rashbrook" wrote:

> How do you recommended to carry out a hard disk upgrade? Having failed
> to use a cloning tool to copy the drive, I am now considering using
> software mirroring to duplicate the OS on to the new disk, then removing
> the old disk from the mirror and extending the partition.
> .
>
From: Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] on 24 May 2010 11:05
The only Officially Supported way to do this in Server 2003, including SBS
2003 is to backup, remove the old drive, install the new drive, install a
base OS, update the OS service pack to whatever was on the box, and restore
from backup.

Cloning tools exist for this. Some are found on the internet for free (gparted),
some cost hundreds of Currency Units. Shadow Protect, Acronis, others.


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> Cliff Galiher - MVP wrote:
>
>> What cloning tool did you try and how did it fail? That would still
>> be the best approach if we can find the problem.
>>
> The cloning tool I tried was Ghost 2003 and the cloned disk would not
> boot correctly. It boots in Safe Mode with Networking, but when I
> tried to boot normally I found that none of the SQL Express instances
> would start and the server would reboot before the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen
> could appear.
>


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