Imaged to Bigger Hard drive and now wont boot

[swoopty]

I have recently been charged with fixing a space issue with a SBS 2003 w/sp1.
The current situation: 2 80Gb sata's in raid 1. 3 particians, the OS on a 10Gb.
They are out of room and in desperate need of a temp fix, as they are going to full server in a new box in about 6 months.
I used Acronis server 9.1 to image the array, cloned to 2 new 500 Gb Sata's. Pulled the 80's and booted.
I get the Server 2003 graphic for about 2 minutes then it re-boots. This keeps cycling. I have tried cloning, backing up and restoring and still the same thing. After googling, I have seen some say that recovery console and fix boot, but I cannot get into the admin after booting to CD and going to repair console, the password for some reason is not working. I am running out of ideas. Anyone ever hear of this or have any idea's

Thanks

 

[swoopty]

Update:
OK, so I got into recovery console using an old password that I found in a file. Did a CHKDSK, FIXBOOT and FIXMBR.

Still the same thing..

 

[petrosky]

Hi,

Can you boot to safe mode?

Also, if you can access the F8 startup menu try selecting Do Not automatically restart on errors. This should then display the BSOD which may lead you to further troubleshooting.

Peter.

Remember- It's nice to be important,
but it's important to be nice

 

[wahnula]

Does a single 80GB drive still boot the machine? If so then I would create a new RAID 1 array with the bigger drives, then remove one of the drive cables. The BIOS will now see both arrays as "degraded", try cloning a single 80GB drive to a single 500GB drive and see what happens.

I know for a fact that Ghost 2003 works like a charm for both of my SBS arrays, RAID 1 & RAID 5.

Tony

"...an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" - M.L. King

 

[swoopty]

Thanks for all your input. I used the acronis server echo, with out changing the partician size, and it booted. Slowly but it finally came up. I then used Acronis disk director and resized. Everything is working great.

Next time I will try Ghost, acronis took a very long time..

Thanks Again.

 

[wahnula]

Congratulations!!! I have used Ghost 2003 (that rev is critical, newer revs don't work as well. Ebay sells them for $30, I have used it to clone arrays many times with zero problems. Even ping-ponged from an array to a solo drive, then back to a new array, like butter. But with the top dollar you paid for Acronis Server you might as well use it, now that you've got it sorted.

Tony

"...an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" - M.L. King