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Virtualizing an old NT4 PDC
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I have an old NT4 Server. I need to turn it into a vhd to put onto a hyper-v box and "retire with prejudice" the old box it is currently on. (meaining I'm going to take it to the range and light it up with a .308). I've tried Disk2Vhd and had no luck. It keeps bombing with or without the HAL fixup. I tried to take an acronis of it, but acronis doen't like NT4. I haven't tried to ghost yet, but I'm not sure how I can take a ghost image and install it to a vhd. Anybody ever done this? And if so, how did you accomplish it? I can't get rid of the NT4 yet, but moving it to new hardware is the first step is migrating to Win2k8. Help.
TIA
Jon
I have an old NT4 Server. I need to turn it into a vhd to put onto a hyper-v box and "retire with prejudice" the old box it is currently on. (meaining I'm going to take it to the range and light it up with a .308). I've tried Disk2Vhd and had no luck. It keeps bombing with or without the HAL fixup. I tried to take an acronis of it, but acronis doen't like NT4. I haven't tried to ghost yet, but I'm not sure how I can take a ghost image and install it to a vhd. Anybody ever done this? And if so, how did you accomplish it? I can't get rid of the NT4 yet, but moving it to new hardware is the first step is migrating to Win2k8. Help.
TIA
Jon
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Hmmmm, according to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb963740.aspx:
"VMM does not support P2V on source computers running Windows NT Server 4.0. However, you can use the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit (VSMT) or third-party solutions for converting computers running Windows NT Server 4.0."
"VMM does not support P2V on source computers running Windows NT Server 4.0. However, you can use the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit (VSMT) or third-party solutions for converting computers running Windows NT Server 4.0."
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Both methods worked to a high degree. I ended up doing it as a greenfield, so virtulizing the NT Box became moot. But thanks very much for the responses. I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to award.
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