Re: Server Migration Issue

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From: Manoj K Srivastava (ManojKSrivastava_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:45:03 -0800

Dear SuperGumby,

Thanks for the steps. They make total sense expect one issue related to my
new server. It actually has an IDE controller which is connected to the DVD
ROM Drive and has one slave port available. But the server BIOS won't allow
me to select the IDE Slave drive as a bootable drive. If I could boot from it
there wouldn't be any issue at all. I can simply use the SATA drive as a
backup / extra storage drive and keep my SBS 2003 on the existing IDE drive.
The system I have is Dell PowerEdge 700. Dell documentation says that the
slave IDE port for tape backup and that is why booting from that drive is not
allowed.

I wonder if I put an additional IDE card into the system will the system
BIOS allow booting from a drive connected to that one. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Manoj

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> 1st: make an ASR backup or 'image' the server.
>
> buy an ide controller and put it in the existing box, load drivers.
> disconnect the IDE from the mobo controller and plug it into the new card.
> Make sure the system boots OK.
>
> move the new card and drive to your new hardware and start in DSRM a few
> times.
>
> You might also consider temporarily moving your network settings to loopback
> adapters. Some notes here
> http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=99
>
> Once the system is used to the hardware changes you can transfer the image
> to the SATA drives either by processes similar to Norton Ghost or by
> software mirroring.
>
>
> "Manoj K Srivastava" <ManojKSrivastava@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:D5F3D233-DE55-42A3-BA94-1F8E865E9AB9@microsoft.com...
> > We want to move to a new faster hardware for our small business server
> > 2003.
> > The new machine can only accept SATA drives while the current server
> > software
> > is installed on a EIDE disk.
> >
> > Is there a way to copy our current EIDE disk to the new computer's SATA
> > disk
> > such that a new installation and configuration of the new machine can be
> > avoided (we can put the same network cards in the new machine as the old
> > machine currently has)?
> >
> > If the answer to the above is no and we must install SBS 2003 again on the
> > new machine then is there a way to tranfer all the user accounts and
> > computer
> > settings on to the new computer include domain name etc. such that all the
> > workstations don't see any change what so ever?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Manoj
>
>
>

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