Agreed. I would install the new disk, use Ghost to image the disk across (while making the second partition fill the remainder of the new disk, and then shut down and remove the old drive for safe keeping. Once the new drive came up ok, I would shut it down again then install another identical disk and bring it back up and have windows mirror the disks.
I am assuming you are using IDE disks in this system, and considering that most of them only have one year warranties, I'd add the second one to cover my rear a bit. ----------------------- Miles Holt, MCP Network Engineer Summit Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-303-0426 ----------------------- "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." - Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 9:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Move Exchange server to new hard drive? I think he means the system files, too. Personally I would use some disk imaging software and push the image onto the new drive and take the old drive off line. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Crowley Sent: July 5, 2003 4:05 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Move Exchange server to new hard drive? Install the new drive. Then, with the Exchange services running, in the properties for the storage group you can relocate the transaction logs, and in the properties for the store you can relocate the database files. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arch Willingham Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 12:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Move Exchange server to new hard drive? What's the best way to put a new disk in an exchange 2000 server? Right now, its sitting in a N2000 server with one 17 MB SCSI disk broken into two partitions (one 6gb and one 11gb). I'd like to put it on one big drive (say around 70 GB) but still broken into two partitions so that I don't have to re-install a ton of software. Any ideas? Arch Willingham _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
