Moving Hard drives 1

[Almin]

HI All

I have installed a new copy of Windows Server on a seperate hard drive (Z that is a slave to my Windows XP (C

How would I go about moving the Z drive to be my primary, This is installed on an older server and We no longer need the C: drive because of it's low capecity. So basicly I need to move the Z to be my Master.

I have tried swaping it out but it dosent work... I get No Operating System Found. When I put back the old hard drive and attach Z to it I get options which OS I would like to run.

Any Help is highly appriciated
Thank you

 

[flyboytim]

I would expect that your windows server installation has resulted with a dual-boot option with XP on the existing C: drive.

You do not say which version of Windows Server you have installed. I would attempt to perform a repair installation by removing the XP hard drive and setting the server hard drive as the first master, then booting from the server installation CD/DVD.

Google on "windows repair install" for directions. There may be specific help here:

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/.

 

[Almin]

Hi. The version of server is 2008 Enterprise. Another small problem is that I have a downloaded version of that server. My school is too cheep to get it on a dvd so we only have the option of downloading it.

Any other sugestions?

Thank you

 

[flyboytim]

You could try:

Burning a bootable install DVD from the downloaded install files. You may need something like VLite (

http://www.vlite.net)unless

the setup files have an .iso format.

EasyBCD from neosmart.net to write the bootloader to your Z:\ drive. Or else just edit the bootloader to not boot to XP on C: but to default boot to the Server 2008 on Z:.

If the old C drive is too small, it is unlikely to have much future use anyway, so you can use the old C: drive for annoying windows bloat stuff like pagefile, restore points, windows update/SP uninstall folders, winsxs, MSOcache and whatever other reduplication Microsoft thinks is good for you.