[windows2000] Re: Disk Images
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:08:11 +0100
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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