Upgrading 9gb scsi hd to 18gb. 1

[butchb2]

Anyone out there give me advise on how to upgrade a mirrored 9gb scsi hd w/ 2 partitions to 18gb scsi.
NT 4.0 server small business version.

 

[DeanSpencer]

This is how I have done it in the past.

First backup your data and make new rescue disks.
Break your mirror on the existing drives.
Assuming you are going to mirror two new 18 gig drives,
mount one of the 18 along with one the primary 9 gig drives.

I have uses Norton Ghost without any problems in the past to copy NTFS partitions. If you can get your hands on a version and get the dos version off of the cd, boot onto a floppy and Ghost will copy over both partitions onto the 18gig drive.
If you haven't used Ghost before then if might take you a couple of times playing with it to get the partitions how you want them(size wise)..

Take out the 9 gig and boot up on the 18gig.
After NT comes up, then shutdown and out second drive in and then mirror them.

That should do it, as I said, have done it in the past several times without any problems.
Make sure when you put in the 18gig it is the same scsi id as the primary 9gig that you Ghosted..

 

[butchb2]

Thanks DeanSpencer, I will be doing this tommorrow. It's my first one and I want to make sure I got it down right. I just don't remember the instructors showing me how to upgrade to a bigger drive. Although they did teach us all about mirroring and stripe sets. You mentioned something about playing with partition sizes. My question is, after I boot from ghost will it create the partitions and can I stay w/ 2 partitions just make them bigger?

Hope I'm not being a pest to anyone.

 

[jserve]

yes, we have actually done a RAID 5 ghost and it worked out wll although no one at MS approves of it or supports this type of cloning. Anyways, yes once in ghost you can make the partition bigger and keep 2 partitions