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Moving Exchange Mail To A Newly Built Windows 2003 SBS

Asked by JohnAtkinson in Exchange Email Server

Tags: 64kb, move

I take care of a Windows 2003 Small Business Server system for a 20 person company.  I'm moving the server from an 80GB drive up to a 120GB drive.  I'd really like to just copy the partitions from the 80 to the 120 with PartitionMagic, but discovered I cannot, because the 80GB drive was originally part of a Promise Technology-enabled RAID mirror.  (The Promise RAID controller, a FastTrak TX2 in this case, apparently writes proprietary information to the final 64KB of a disk, which totally confuses PartitionMagic.

So, I'm left with just installing Windows 2003 SBS afresh onto the 120GB drive, and somehow migrating the data over to the new drive.  Most of our data is safely stored on a separate partition, which will move via drag-and-drop.  I'm more worried about getting my users' Exchange data transferred over.  I'm not a high-powered Windows or Exchange administrator, but I'm hoping YOU are, Gentle Reader!  There are 2 questions to answer here:

1. What's a safe plan for moving my users' Exchange data from one installation of Windows 2003 SBS to another one?

2. What's a safe plan for moving the Active Directory information (users, computers, distribution groups, etc.) from one system to the other?  (I realize this is a bit off-topic, but if you can answer both questions, you get the full 500 points!)

Thanks, Gracious Expert!
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