[windows2000] Re: Disk Images

  • From: Rob Sharp <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:50:10 +0000

One of the requirements listed for G4U is:-

1. Workstations to be cloned should be similar in hardware. Disk sizes, especially. See the site above for more specific details.

Since the purpose of this task is for the original poster to install a larger harddrive then this program may not be ideal.

Are you not able to use something like BootItNG or Acronis True Image to make an image onto a networked drive, and then restore that image onto the new hardware?

R

Sorin Srbu wrote:
Costanzo, Ray <> wrote on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:51 PM:

Why not use G4U? It will allow you to clone the current hd to the new one.
It's certainly faster... Both drives have to be installed in the server first
though.

http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/

http://www.tech-geeks.org/geeklog/article.php?story=20030507102947786

Try it on a non-critical test-box first though, until you know how it works.

The name implies it's for unix, but I use it for windows machines too. Works
well.

HTH.


You could take the original drive and the new drive, put them both into
a test computer that already has its own OS drive, and then just copy
and paste everything from the original drive to the new one.  Kinda
flakey, but I've done it.

Or, if your server has a RAID card, just pull out one of the original
drives, put in your new drive, let the RAID "repair" the new drive, pull
out the original, and put in the other new one and let the RAID be
"repaired" again.

Ray at work

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Leach



Good Afternoon,

I have a Win2K server (member server) and I want to install a new
(larger) hard drive on it.  Can I make an iso disk image of the current
hard drive and then put it on the new hard drive?

Also, If I can do this, how do I extract or restore the image to the new
drive?

Thanks for the help.
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