HI.
* Verify you have a good, current and complete backup before anything.
* Create another complete backup - always be on the safe side.
* Install drivers for the new server SCSI controller and for IDE on the current server. This may help when trying to start a copy of the server on the new hardware.
* I always prefer using BACKUP and RESTORE over ghosting for 2 major reasons:
1) This is an excelent test for what your backups are worth, and that you know what to do in case...
2) You have no problems with paritions sizes since you recreate the partitions.
So you install OS on new server, install Service Pack and backup program, then restore from your tape.
It is recommended to make the temporary install in a different folder, like WINNTTMP .
It is recommended to create an 8gb NTFS partition for drive C of the new server before installing. This can be done by placing the new empty disk as a secondary disk in an existing NT machine like your current server.
Ghost can do the copy much faster, but as I mentioned there are important advantages on using the backup.
The copying and testing can be done on a IDE disk to see if it works, then on the new SCSI disks.
* After that you start the restored server on new hardware.
You should now hope that the server will load - You can not know until you try.
(Remember that you installed the Disk Controller driver before?)
Errors with the NIC driver will not prevent the server from loading and can be handled later.
In the worth case, you can not boot the imaged server. More chances are that it will boot but you have to try.
Bye
Yizhar Hurwitz