RE: Oracle issues after HDD swap into new PC?

  • From: "Rich Jesse" <rjoralist3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:47:23 -0500 (CDT)

Thanks guys for the feedback.  I'm not as worried about the Windows drivers
and such -- they're a pain, but a known problem.  A consultant of ours was
wondering if the Oracle stack might need to be reinstalled.  I couldn't see
why, but I think I'm going to find out!

Thanks again!
Rich

> Can you set up the new server with its own internal drive to support the OS
> then plug in the HDD from the source machine as a slave?  Should be able to
> mount the database that way...might have to recreate the control file to
> make sure the files names are all correct.  The OS on the slave would be
> just ignored.
>
[snip]
>
> I haven't done this since XP, but I do recall something about having to
> create hardware profiles so that the OS instance could boot with correct
> drivers.  There's (probably) more changing than the processor - chipsets,
> drives, etc).  I don't know if such a thing is possible or necessary in
> Windows 7, but it'd be where I would want to investigate.


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