Server 2000 upgrade

[Jomercat]

Hi all,

I have three domain controllers in our network, one PDC and a BDC(Domain Replica) at our main location and a BDC at a remote location.

I need to replace the hard drives in our main server, which means that I have to re-install Windows 2000 server.

-What would be the best aproach?

-Demoting the server and promoting after the upgrade?

Any help will be appreciated.

Jose.

 

[milesy]

I had the same issue about 6 months ago.

We had just purchased a copy of Norton Ghost. I cannot remember the exact name but it is not the domestic one, as it will not work on a server platform.

I put the new disk in the server, and ran drive copy from Norton Ghost.

Swap the drives over and swapped the jumper...

Its been running fine ever since, well quicker as we upgraded to 10Krpm drives

I will try and find the correct name of the software and I will post it here

 

[Goner05]

Another option is to put an old hard drive in the New server and mirror it to you new drive. After the mirror is completed you can break it and all your info is now on the new drive. You can then use a partition program to redo your partitions as needed

You can also check out Acronis

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/

as well.

Goner05

 

[Jomercat]

milesy,

Thanks for the reply!!!

I have a RAID controller with level 5 running three 10 K SCSI H.Ds, 18.2 GB space. I will upgrade to three 36.4 GB. I believe your aproach will not work on H.Ds installed with RAID controllers.

Additionally, I would like to do a clean install as our server has been running for over two years now and it's running a little slow.

Do I have to demote the PDC server, install Windows server and promote it to PDC after the install?

Thanks.

Jose.

 

[milesy]

We were also running raid Mirror ( 2 drives) there were no problems just work on one drive, then recreate the raid array. Hope this helps

PS the correct software name is Norton Live State Recovery.
A 13 year old could use it.