Moving C: partition to new drive on server

[cdaleridr]

I have three drives on my lonely little server and one has some configuration issues that can pretty much only be fixed by wiping the drive and starting over. Of course, it's the drive that C: is on, and all of the wonderful Windows toys like AD and DHCP are there too. I don't want to rebuild the server if I can avoid it. I have two other drives with more than enough space on them for the 4G C: partition, the question is this: can I use Ghost on a Windows 2000 Server box to copy the C: partition over to one of these other drives and not see AD and DHCP, among other things, blow up? I've seen suggestions for Acronis products for similar things to this on desktops, but I haven't found anything from them like Symantec's handy free trial.

Edit: Nevermind, Acronis does have a free trial download. Still, though, not sure which way to go here.

 

[Dahak]

as far as i know I dont think there will not be a problem. Ghost old c to new drive, remove old drive, set new drive as main boot and go.

as it is all the same hardware that is in the machine and you are going to a bigger drive. Id try and see, worse case scenario, you'll just have wasted the amount of time that it takes to ghost it.

 

[cdaleridr]

Well, tried this over the weekend and it didn't work so well in that the server's configured with a logical drive that spans all three physical hard disks. The cloning worked great, but after I cloned the C: partition and moved it to another drive, Windows started rebuilding a drive. All the data's still just fine, but my problem isn't solved yet. I think the only way to get rid of the partitions and poorly implemented RAID is to back the server up and delete the virtual drives and take any further steps I need to in order to get rid of the current partition/RAID setup. Relatively straightforward on paper, but I'm sure that actually doing it will be interesting. Acronis' software worked well with the disk cloning and hopefully I can create a nice image of the data and make a restore as trouble free as possible. I've got all my software CD's standing by just in case, though. Should be an interesting holiday weekend coming up.