Re: SBS 2003 hard drive failing

This might be worth a try.

Purchase a new drive and a copy of acronis trueimage (retail desktop version
$50, not server version).

Boot from cd and do a clone disk. It may complain about bad sectors but I
have found it does a good job of recovery.

If the clone drive is not operational enough, try "spinrite" on the original
drive and then clone to new. Spinrite may be able to read/recover stuff
that acronis cannot.

Have done the acronis clone on both windows and linux. It works.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hmmm. I would be inclined to bring up the new drive, do the NTBackup
restore, then do an "upgrade" to re-install any corrupted files.

The other alternative is to do a swing migration. This would preserve your
current AD and Exchange, and get around the problems of copying corrupted
files.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


pcsjason@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a SBS 2003 standard with a C: drive that is failing (bad blocks
are increasingly being reported). It has already affected some system
files. I cannot use Server Management, Administrative Tools folder is
empty. So I need to install a fresh OS on a new hard drive. I have a
NTbackup but I cannot use it because it will copy the corrupted files.
How can I and what do I need to backup or copy to keep exchange and
active directory intact? I generally just use the server for email and
file and print sharing. Thanks.




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