[windows2000] Re: Disk Images
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:19:01 +0100
Rob Sharp <> wrote on Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:50 AM:
I've run G4U on dissimilar hardware, including bigger sized new hd, and it
worked ok.
I think I've also tried creating a clone on an intel chipset based mobo and
then moving the cloned hd to a via chipset based mobo. It requires a bit of
tweaking before the clone is made though. I recall doing a sysprep first on
the clonee first, so that the sysprepped hd will identify the hardware
properly on the clone afterwards.
> 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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