I want to upgrade the hardware I'm using for a domain controller in a small
network.

The new computer I'll be using has a sata hard drive. While the existing DC
has a IDE hard drive.

I don't want to have to reinstall active directory, or restore system state
as I have tried restoring system sate on a different computer before and of
cause there are problems with device drivers and such.

What I wanted to do was to put the sata drive and the IDE drive in a third
computer and copy the complete disk from the IDE drive to the sata drive
then put the sata drive in the new computer and boot it up.

I'm not really a hardware man would this work?

Any one see any problems with doing this

ThatsIT.net.au wrote:
Basically, the "problem" is that is simply will not work. You can't take
boot drives and move them from computer to computer unless the hardware
is *IDENTICAL*...

You want to:

1) Set up new server.

2) DCPROMO it. If you are upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003,
you will need to upgrade AD first.

3) Install DNS, DHCP, etc. on the new server.

4) Move the FSMOs to the new server

5) Make it a GC.

6) Update all clients to use the new DC as a DNS server (keep the old one).

7) After waiting for replication to complete, try shutting the old DC
down. Resolve any issues that may come up.

8) Assuming that everything is OK, DCPROMO the old DC and remove it from
the domain and power off.

9) Clean up any leftover remnants in AD.

If you are trying to keep the same DC name and IP address, that is
another issue. If it's windows 2003, it *CAN* be done. If it's Windows
2000, then it's a huge problem...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:08:21 +0900, ThatsIT.net.au wrote:

Image your drive using acronis to an external drive, plug in the SATA and
apply the image, boot into safe mode, add any missing drivers and you
should be fine.



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I should of mentions that this is a SBS server 2000




"Hank Arnold (MVP)" <rasilon@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Holz" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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I have never used acronis I just looked at there web site they have a trial
version will that do what I need?

Also when you say apply the image, do you mean to do this from a 3rd machine
using windows or put the disk in the new machine and do this from dos?

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:34:43 +0900, ThatsIT.net.au wrote:


If this is SBS then you should use the swing process. You should got to
the SBS group and ask about it, microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs



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"Holz" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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I was looking at one of their products called migrate easy, it seemed to be
what I needed and the trial is fully functional.

But what is the swing process?

I will also ask in SBS