[windows2000] Re: Imaging a server to move its functionality to a larger HD

  • From: "Sullivan, Glenn" <GSullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:32:52 -0500

It sure will, but it won't really solve your problem... you will still have a 
small C drive, a 3 gb D drive, and a whole bunch of unallocated space left over.

If you use something like Ghost you should be able to resize the partitions on 
the destination drive, which would be better.

But if this is a production server, the first thing you should do when you are 
done is uncompress that C Drive.  Talk about a bottleneck...

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc. 

-----Original Message-----
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rod Falanga
Posted At: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:31 AM
Posted To: Windows 2000
Conversation: Imaging a server to move its functionality to a larger HD
Subject: [windows2000] Imaging a server to move its functionality to a
larger HD


As you know, I am a neophyte systems administrator.  We've had some folks into 
our shop looking at one of the servers have on our domain.  This is our ISA 
server.  The previous system administrator (who left almost 2 years ago) had a 
habit, whenever any new machine came in (server or otherwise), to immediately 
reformat the hard drive and partition it up into a small C drive (1 GB) and 
whatever else was left to the D drive.  Given the fact that this server has a 4 
GB hard drive (big for its day) we no longer have room on it to try and put 
things like Partition Magic onto it and reallocate the partitions.  
Additionally, on this particular server, the C drive is compressed but the D 
drive is not.

So, this outside fellow suggested doing an image of the whole hard drive and 
then putting that onto a larger hard drive, to replace the one in the server.

My question is, will this work?

 
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