Server upgrade: Move old disks to New Hardware with different SCSI Controller.

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Sam Wong

Hi all,

I'm going to upgrade the current server. I bought a new box: new
motherboard, nic, video card and of course, new SCSI controller.

I know that it won't work if I just move the disks into the new box.
I've read http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694 and know it maybe
the best way to do the upgrade.

I wonder if this will work: I put in another SCSI controller to the
old box, load up the driver and then, take out this SCSI Controller
and disks, put them all into the new box having disks connect to this
SCSI Controller. Will the system starts up properly and let me install
all the drivers for the new hardware? Any experience on this?

Any help will be appreciated.

Sam
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You will still have some issues based on the motherboard resources that wont
be migrated based on hardware. Best thing to do is to backup all your data
so that its safe, install the new hardware, and then do an inplace upgrade
of Windows 2000 to get the hardware enumerated properly.
 
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