Restore Win2K to different hardware.

[wamason]

Does anyone have a solid procedure to restore Win 2000 server from old hardware to new hardware. I have an old Compaq Proliant 3000 and am trying to restore to DL380-G3. The array controller is definitely different. Any solid procedures available.

 

[mohamdr]

Hi
Do you mean here you have a full backup of one server and you want to install it on another server?

Microsoft don't recommand to inatall the system stste from one hardware to another hardware because on driver diffrence between both servers.

regards,
mohamdr

 

[wamason]

I am sure that it's not an impossibility. If you have a true disaster and you have very old hardware, your DR site most likely will not have old servers......they will have more upto date equipment. In that case you will need to be able to restore to different hardware. I would like everyone's feedback on this topic.

 

[davidmichel]

Video and NIC are not a problem, mainboard can be a problem (if a different HAL is used it will not work), hard drive controller can be worked around. If this was a disaster recovery forget about it, since this it is not this should work. I say should because not all controller drivers work the same.

Install the new driver on the old system. After the install of the driver you have to go into the registry to make sure the START value is set at 0. Now with the driver installed and configured to startup do the backup, and the restored system should start up correctly.