You won't be able to have both servers running with the same name.
You'll have to bring up the new controller with a new name. You'll want to move all the DC roles over to the new server once you've promoted it.
To copy the files, I would use robocopy. You'll still have to recreate the user shares and the rights on the share folders. Either way, once you have all the files copied, You'll want to go back and select the shares, go to properties, advanced, and replicate/replace permissions on the files and sub folders of the shares to ensure they have the access rights you desire.
Once everything is working - AND - the dc roles are on the new box, demote the old box.
Also, you'll want to see if that old box is doing other things such as DNS, WINS, DHCP for your environment and setup the new one correctly for that.
On the server name - share problem, perhaps setup an Alias record in DNS once the old server is gone, pointing to the new server IP.
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by: MikeLogsdonPosted on 2009-10-29 at 10:19:59ID: 25695931
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