Moving drive with Win2K to system with RAID controller

BCinSC

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Setup Win2000 Pro on a drive in a basic tower system. Now want to move to rack mount HP ProLiant DL320 server that only has onboard RAID, no other IDE channels, no a CDROM or Floppy. I've copied the RAID drive to winnt\system32 and the INF to INF directory, but don't know how to get Windows to use it without running Repair from CD. So I get Blue Screen Inaccessible Boot Device.
 

Matthias99

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You need to ghost or image the drive, using software such as Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage. Otherwise the boot sectors and other inaccessible portions of the drive will not be present.

How did you buy a server without a CDROM, Floppy, OR IDE channels? How are you supposed to install anything on it? :confused:
 

BCinSC

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Well, it has IDE channels, they're just RAID. Linux preloaded on hard drive works great on this box - Red Hat 9 loaded without complaint. Win2003 probably would, too, but this requires Win2000. Bought it because it was CHEAP for a 3.06GHZ HT 512MB RAID 1U rack mount.
 

Matthias99

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Originally posted by: BCinSC
Well, it has IDE channels, they're just RAID. Linux preloaded on hard drive works great on this box - Red Hat 9 loaded without complaint. Win2003 probably would, too, but this requires Win2000. Bought it because it was CHEAP for a 3.06GHZ HT 512MB RAID 1U rack mount.

Can you disable the RAID functionality (so it just treats the ports as regular IDE channels) and then just boot off the existing Win2K drive? You can go into Device Manager and remove all the installed hardware before you take it out of the old system -- this basically does what a Repair Install would do... but if you don't have drivers for the hardware in the rackmount, I have no idea how you'd get them without a floppy/CD drive, unless it comes up enough for you to get onto the net.
 

BCinSC

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Nope, can't disable RAID function. Also noted that it only sees 131GB of 250GB drive. Doesn't seem to be a firmware update for it either.