We recently purchased a 18 gig scsi hard drive to replace our old 13 gig ide. This is a NT 4.0 sp4 running nothing but Backoffice with exchange 5.5 with about 40 mailboxes. I installed the scsi, booted to dos, used ghost to copy the ide to the scsi. After the copy, I disconnected the ide and the scsi booted fine, but I got errors about the information store not being able to start. Unfortunately I did not write down the specific errors, since i had to get the server running "ASAP" I just plugged the ide back and unplugged the scsi. Can I try this again in a different way, and have the exchange not complain? Is there something that I have to "prep" or do afterwards? What gives? Thanks for your help. (I do have complete daily backups)
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Just so that you all can sleep...I did the copy all over and it worked the second time. Even though the web page of ghost(symantec) recomended not to "ghost" between ide and scsi. I have done this before and I did not have any problems. I had not done it with a NT server before. The only thing I had to do differently, was to turn off all the exchange services before I brought down the server. When ghost copies the hard drive over, It kept the partitions as C: and D:, but when NT came up, it saw the CD as D: and automatically "bumped" the second partition as E: Even though there was absolutely nothing on D:, exchange did not like it, and it refused to run. As I was saying, I turned off(disabled) the Exchange services before bringing it down, and after copying the drive, the scsi came up, I changed the CD to be the E: drive, and then assigned the D: letter to the second partition, and turned exchange back on and voila! everything is back to normal. The scsi is faster, and we have a lot more space to spare. I could always keep the ide as a spare or as a backup. If we have a hurricane warning, I can just turn the exchage off(disable) ghost the hard drive over, and take the HD to a vault somewhere.
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