Re: move OS from IDE drive to SATA Raid
From: tlviewer (tlviewerSHRUB_at_yahooCHENEY.com)
Date: 02/15/05
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:24:23 -0800
Bruce,
"Bruce Sanderson" <bsanders@junk.junk> wrote in message
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> You may well have difficulties with the drive letter assignments. If you
> leave the IDE drive in the computer, it will have the drive letter C and
the
> SATA raid partitions will still be D etc. So, even if you change the
> content of the boot.ini, the OS, installed programs etc. will be set up to
> use the drive letter of C, not D. An in-place upgrade may or may not fix
up
> all of the drive letter references (particularly for application
programs).
>
> If your BIOS has support for it, you might be able to change the settings
so
> that the first partition on the SATA raid is the boot drive, instead of
the
> IDE drive (particularly if you remove the IDE drive); this may make it
> possible to boot and have the first partion on the SATA drive as the C
drive
> letter. However, Windows keeps track of what drive letter is assigned to
> which partition, so this might not work.
Thanks for your detailed response. I ended up going through this twice,
succeeding the second time without trouble. The first time I failed becuase
I crossed over, moving the IDE C: installation to Raid0 D:. As you mentioned
its not reasonable to expect an inplace-upgrade to fix the drive letters in
the
registry. The second time, I started with WinXP sp2 in D:, partition(2).
When I originally installed WinXPsp2, the IDE drive was disconnected,
leaving only
the SATA Raid0 array. When I did the Ghost clone later, the IDE was
connected
as slave, then configured in the Bios to boot after the SATA. However, its
drive
index caused my SATA drive to be mis-labeled in boot.ini. I got around this
trouble by having an editable boot floppy at hand, so I could change the
drive
indexes in boot.ini as I went along.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
IOW, the "rdisk" index changed to one, and then back after I finished
Ghosting over.
It was a little painful to redo the WinXPsp2 install into Raid0
D:,partition(2).
Next it was tricky to find a way to format Raid0 C:, partition(1). I did
this by
starting a new install of Win2k sp4 with the CD, recreating partition(1),
formatting it, then
shutting the machine down once it started copying files (abort). I couldn't
see
any other way to abort the install.
After shutting the machine down, I booted up with the floppy into WinXP
(D:, partition(2), deleted the WinNT fragments, then Ghosted over the
IDE C: installation.
After this everything went very smooth with the in-place upgrade. The
Raid0 Win2k OS looks and behaves like before, but at the new Raid0 level of
performance. All my Office Apps and personal data were undamaged.
>
> See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/EN-US/
> and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q249321.
>
> Most cloning procedures/software assume that the target installation will
> have the same disk configuration as the source, at least as far as the
> "system" and "boot" partitions are concerned.
>
> However, if you are willing to experiment and investigate subsequent
> problems, then give it a try. You might want to see if sysprep would be
> useful (in Support\Tools\deploy.cab), althought this is realy intended for
> deploying to multiple computers.
>
> If you intend to keep the installation around for a while, you may be
better
> off in the long run to do a clean install into the SATA drive's
partitions.
>
> Regardless, if this system is "production" and supporting some business
> function, make sure you have a good backup before proceeding!
>
> --
> Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
>
> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
> "tlviewer" <tlviewerSHRUB@yahooCHENEY.com> wrote in message
> news:ee4Kl3gEFHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I want to move an OS from an IDE drive to a SATA Raid drive.
>
> I have a well developed Win2k sp4 installation
> running on c:\ of an IDE drive.
>
> I upgraded the motherboard, CPU, and RAM, then built
> a Raid0 SATA array using two SATA Maxtor 6B300S0 drives.
>
> The Raid0 drive was partitioned as C:,D:,E:, & F:, then
> WinXP sp2 was installed to C:.
>
> Next installed was Ghost 2003, to help clone the old
> IDE OS into Raid0 D:
>
> Will Ghost allow me to clone the Win2k install from
> IDE C: to Raid0 D:? Is there a better way?
>
> If I manage to clone the Win2k OS over, then I plan
> to edit the Boot.ini in C: for Dual, then do an In-place
> upgrade of Win2k in D:
>
> Any comments are welcome,
> tlviewer
>
>
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