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SCSI drive cloning, original drive raid 5 on an SBS server

Asked by bitsbucket in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: 5, resizing, scsi

Hi,
I have a Win2K SBS server that has an 18 gig SCSI drive partitioned to 3 drives, one is the boot, one is data and one is for exchange server. I want to upgrade the drive, as the boot and exchange drive are both below 150 meg, "Warning Will Robinson, Crash is inevitable, crash is inevitable" I have picked out a Seagate SCSI 73 gigger@10K rpm and want to know the best way to clone the original drive to the new, larger one, I have lots of experience doing this with IDEs but have never done it with a SCSI. I have used Partition Magic 8/Drive Copy/Ghost/Dive Image and just about everything else out there. (And have all these apps available to me now) The current drive is configured to Raid 5. My idea is to setup a bare box with an Adaptec 2940 and just setup the drives and then clone the old one to the new one, I guess my question is: What piece of software is the best to do this with, obviously I DO NOT want the machine to boot to windoze, because the SBS Drive would find all kinds of hardware it does not recognize, so I want to use something like ghost and boot from a floppy. What are the expert’s recommendations? I know that the worst I can have happen is to put the old drive back in and be back to square one, but this needs to work on the first go around because of…..yup, you guessed it, NOBODY wants to deal with the downtime, I’m sure that this statement sounds familiar, I know I’ve heard it many times…”how long will this take, we can’t be down long” Well considering your dealing with the customers data, they should be appreciative that you are being careful and it may take a little longer if you take the time to do it right! I know from past experience with IDE drives and Partition Magic, that the new drive will endup with partitions of the exact same size as the original drive, so in the beginning you have gained nothing untill using the "resize" function in PM8. I have been able to stretch the new partitions to use  the drive in the most efficent way, and use the complete drive. The Machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 1300 with a 550 P3, 256 meg PC-100 mem, and an 18 gig? drive that according to the report from the software that Dell has available to download to tell you the configuration of the machine I don't even recognize. It is described in the report as "MEGARAID LD 0 RAID 5 SCSI Disk device 16.73 Gb" Video is 3D RAGE 2C AGP 2 Mb,  Drive sizes as they are now: C: (boot) NTFS 6.940 Gb free space is 0.001 Gb/ E:(Data storage) NTFS 9.766 Gb free space is 4.985 Gb/ M: (Exchange) 6.940Gb free space is 0.001 Gb. As you can see this is pretty urgent that I get the drive replaced. I do not want a system crash. Could I use PM8 to resize the drive as it is now and use some of the data storage space for the exchange and boot partitions? I would have no questions if this was an IDE drive but does PM8 work as well with SCSI? iIf you need more info please feel free to email me at johna@almand.net Thanks a million!

All suggestions and recommendations greatly appreciated!
Bitsbucket
 
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