Test Network Setup 1

[chiefl]

I want to set up a “test network” for testing software before installing it on the real network. I am using NT 4.0 on the server and Windows 95 on 65 client machines. The server has SCSI drives and the only machine I have available for a test server has IDE drives. How do I copy the server drive on to the IDE drive? I have read many posts about Ghost and it sounds like what I need. What do I need to be aware of so I am confident my test provides correct answers?

 

[darranagl]

Ghost will copy the whole hard drive.

If the drive you ghost is a data drive only it will copy from a SCSI to an IDE ok.

If the drive has NT installed on it and it is on a SCSI drive, if you ghost it onto an IDE drive NT will not boot. New Zealand, a great place to live.

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[Daveyboy2]

I wouldn't do it. Well, you could for a backup, but good luck. I've tried it a long time ago - and failed miserably. The HAL (Hardware Extraction Layer) recognizes what kind of hardware you have programmed. Drivers are present for the SCSI drives that are WAY different from the IDE drivers.

What you would probably need to do, to test this further, would be to set the video adapter to a plain ole VGA adatper (the drivers will nost likely NOT work on the new system), Ghost the new hard drive, and then hook the ghosted drive up to another machine so you can modify the BOOT.INI file to have it boot to an IDE drive instead of the SCSI.

That may work, it may not, but that's the route I'd go...

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[chiefl]

Thank you for the assistance. I am going to see about getting a SCSI adapter card and drive for the test machine. Any problems associated with that idea?