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Migrating from SCSI to SATA

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Paulreg

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Jul 9, 2003
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I have an NT4 server running on a box with 3 SCSI disks using hardware based RAID5.
I have taken an image of this server (4GB system partion)restored it to a new server with a 4GB partition on 2 80GB SATA disks using hardware based RAID1.
NT starts to boot on the new server but then gives a BSOD presumably because it cannot see the SATA disks.
How can I get NT to see these disks ? Can I load the SATA drivers on the old server and then take an image ? Can I reinstall NT over the top of the image and add the drivers during the install and if so will I lose the applications in the image ? Is there a better way of doing this ?
Many thanks
Paulreg
 
That is a tricky situation, I've seen it work, not work, and work for a little while and die. It's a trial and error process, no magic answer. If this is a production server I would recommend building your new server and OS, Installing the Application, and migrating the data. In the long run you are going to have a more stable system. If you can't do it this way the are methods to move your physical server into a virtual environment, make any changes (upgrades) and fork lift it on to the new hardware. Check out as a solution. FYI - can get spendy.

Good luck...
 
Platespin looks an interesting product but there's no way we can afford it.
I think I build the new server from scratch and find a way to migrate the data.
Thanks
Paulreg
 
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