Moving all drives to identical hardware- NT, Proliant Hardware

[bob1000]

Hi- We have a server hardware failure that we can't rectify and the backups have failed. We are running NT4 on Compaq Proliant hardware about a year old.

Can we simply move the disks to a same hardware server, and boot it - does anyone know or has anyone tried this approach?

Thanks in advance..

 

[wolluf]

You should be able to - why not just try it (I'd image the boot drive first, just in case of problems).

PS. I've had this work when the hardware was not identical.

 

[rdroske]

Yeah it will work, even if the hardware is just reasonably close.

If it blue screens try VGA mode first.

 

[holle400]

It is possible.

If you are runnig a RAID-system, than you need to swap the array-card also, because the settings used by the raid-config is stored on that card.

If you have only 1 drive with IDE or SCSI without any raid-configs, well, it must work under VGA-mode.

Let me know.

Ewald