Ghosting: How do I ghost from SCSI to SATA?

[aceO07]

I want to make a duplicate server, but they do not have identical hardware. The original is on a SCSI drive, the destination is a SATA Raid.

How would I get this to work? (I haven't tried yet)

Additional info: I'm using Norton GHOST. I'm trying to duplicate a Windows 2000 Server. Or rather move it over as easily as possible without having to do reinstall of every software package and configuration.

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: aceO07
I want to make a duplicate server, but they do not have identical hardware. The original is on a SCSI drive, the destination is a SATA Raid.

How would I get this to work? (I haven't tried yet)

Additional info: I'm using Norton GHOST. I'm trying to duplicate a Windows 2000 Server. Or rather move it over as easily as possible without having to do reinstall of every software package and configuration.

Here is some info. Looks like it may be a bit tricky.
http://service1.symantec.com/S...P&osv=&osv_lvl

 

[aceO07]

I guess I'll figure out in a bit. I made an image.. now to transfer it over. It's hardware SATA RAID, so hopefully it'll be easier than software raid..

EDIT: I can write to it, so that's good...

 

[aceO07]

Is there a way to update the device that Window uses? It's now on SATA instead of IDE. So it needs drivers to do it, how would I update them? I can use Windows CD and have it detect the drives after I specify the drivers. But how do I make it get updated in the version that's on the harddrive?

 

[SUOrangeman]

As you noted, you will need to instal SATA drivers on the original system *before* using Ghost. Per chance, does the same SATA controller exist in the original system? If not, would it be a pain to install it so that you can get the drivers in the OS?

Worst case, you may have to use an intermediate step, like Ghosting to an IDE drive, as a generic IDE controller driver can be used on both systems. Just make sure you use the most generic IDE controller driver. Ghost SCSI -> IDE, move IDE to backup system -> boot off of IDE and install SATA driver, Ghost IDE -> SATA.

-SUO

 

[Woodie]

I'm curious to hear how it works....I didn't have the SATA drivers on my boot CD (ghost), so couldn't ghost my scsi (old) image to the (new) SATA drive. (non-boot drive, so no os reinstall, etc...)

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
As you noted, you will need to instal SATA drivers on the original system *before* using Ghost. Per chance, does the same SATA controller exist in the original system? If not, would it be a pain to install it so that you can get the drivers in the OS?

Worst case, you may have to use an intermediate step, like Ghosting to an IDE drive, as a generic IDE controller driver can be used on both systems. Just make sure you use the most generic IDE controller driver. Ghost SCSI -> IDE, move IDE to backup system -> boot off of IDE and install SATA driver, Ghost IDE -> SATA.

-SUO

I can't really pull the SATA controller out of the rack server. It's new and I know nothing about them. Is there a way to install the device drivers w/o installing the hardware? I tried in Win2k add/remove hardware, but the sata controller doesn't show up on the device lists even after I point to the driver folder.

It does boot up, but only to the Win2k graphic with the scrolling progress bar. Then it says inaccessible boot device.

 

[aceO07]

It was a NO go. I had to reinstall from scratch. The up side of it is that I got to discover new features of Win2k Server which I didn't during the other installations and configurations.