I am attempting to migrate a mirrored set of software mirrored NT 4.0 drives (system is using NT 4 mirroring only, no striping) dsk 0 configured as 39 megs eisa utilities, partition C 2.6 gigs, partition D 14.6 gigs; disk 1 as 8 megs eisa utilities, C 2.6 gigs, D 14.6 gigs, 31 megs free, on a Compaq ProLiant ML 350 original release server single processor 733 MHZ with 2 Gigs of Registered memory. I want to migrate the disk to a 73.4 Gig Seagate drive. I am using Norton Ghost, 2003 version, I have older versions as well. I will be doing this on the Features Board SCSI controller, then later taking that migrated drive and RAID mirroring it with an Adaptec RAID controler and building the 2 73.4 disk drive set.
What I would like to know is do I need to clone the 39 meg eisa utilities to a separate partition or does the boot information reside on the C partition. Do I also need the 8 megs utilities from disk 1 for the system to boot up after migration if I do need to clone the eisa partions.
Do I create the target partition as ntfs or fat, or doesn't it matter since I will be writing to that partition only?
Is there a better program for doing this than Ghost? What about Power Quest's Drive Image?
Does anyone know any other approaches to this situation? I really don't want to install from scratch if I don't have to.
I have done sucessful mock runs with NT 4 Server using Ghost on a DPT RAID card with partion C at 2008 megs and D of 14.6 Gigs, first partitioning and formatting the two partions to 10 gigs and 60 gigs from NT 4 Server using Disk Administrator as NTFS partions.
Then I ran into this EISA stuff. I tried cloning without the EISA partions and the migrated disk would not boot up, just kept trying to boot to the floppy drive with everything pointing to the correct boot device and adapter. I then tried to clone the EISA partition. It tried to boot to the C: drive but that was it.
Can I safely remove the EISA utilities from the original disk/disks and then clone? I'm assuming this is the problem, though when I did this I had the original drives on the Compag Feature Board SCSI controler and the set of 73.4 gig drives alredy RAID arrayed as RAID 1 on the Adaptec/Compaq 2100S RAID card . Norton told me not to try it that way, but to put one of the 73.4 Gig drives on the Compag SCSI card unmirrored and clone that way. After which then I could set up the RAID array on the Adaptec Card and build the array. They didn't offer any help concerning the EISA utilities partitions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What I would like to know is do I need to clone the 39 meg eisa utilities to a separate partition or does the boot information reside on the C partition. Do I also need the 8 megs utilities from disk 1 for the system to boot up after migration if I do need to clone the eisa partions.
Do I create the target partition as ntfs or fat, or doesn't it matter since I will be writing to that partition only?
Is there a better program for doing this than Ghost? What about Power Quest's Drive Image?
Does anyone know any other approaches to this situation? I really don't want to install from scratch if I don't have to.
I have done sucessful mock runs with NT 4 Server using Ghost on a DPT RAID card with partion C at 2008 megs and D of 14.6 Gigs, first partitioning and formatting the two partions to 10 gigs and 60 gigs from NT 4 Server using Disk Administrator as NTFS partions.
Then I ran into this EISA stuff. I tried cloning without the EISA partions and the migrated disk would not boot up, just kept trying to boot to the floppy drive with everything pointing to the correct boot device and adapter. I then tried to clone the EISA partition. It tried to boot to the C: drive but that was it.
Can I safely remove the EISA utilities from the original disk/disks and then clone? I'm assuming this is the problem, though when I did this I had the original drives on the Compag Feature Board SCSI controler and the set of 73.4 gig drives alredy RAID arrayed as RAID 1 on the Adaptec/Compaq 2100S RAID card . Norton told me not to try it that way, but to put one of the 73.4 Gig drives on the Compag SCSI card unmirrored and clone that way. After which then I could set up the RAID array on the Adaptec Card and build the array. They didn't offer any help concerning the EISA utilities partitions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!