RE: WHS transfer

[Tom Lawrence <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I would not transplant the hard drives like your suggesting. WHS probably
won't like the new SATA controller and in the past when I have done this
with XP, The system doesn't cope well.
When I moved my WHS to new kit, I did a complete reinstall and tranfered
the data across.
Needs a buffer drive as it were to allow you to copy the data off one drive
before you add it to the pool though.. Your better off with a reinstall
long term if you ask me.

Regards,
Tom

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil
Wrightson
Sent: 04 February 2011 21:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WHS transfer



Thanks Ian, I think?

You instill so much confidence (not) :-)

Does anybody else have some experience in this area?

Regards,

Neil Wrightson.

_____

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>]
On Behalf Of
Ian Oliver
Sent: Saturday, 5 February 2011 6:54 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] WHS transfer

In article <70BABEEEA5B24C1CAF4A8941C45C1D04@xxxxxxx<mailto:70BABEEEA5B24C1CAF4A8941C45C1D04%40NWE.local>
<mailto:70BABEEEA5B24C1CAF4A8941C45C1D04%40NWE.local>
>, Neil Wrightson
wrote:
> So the question is, can I just move all of the HD's over and be ready
with
> the motherboard driver CD etc.
> I guess it may require a Microsoft re verification etc.

With Linux, you pretty much just move the disk across and reboot. I've done
this dozens of times and "it just works"(tm)

With Windows, it's far more work. The chances of the machine even booting
are slim, so be prepared to do a Windows repair. After that, it's a lot of
mobo driver re-installation, downloading of all the relevant updates, and
crossing of fingers. You can make life easier by having a disk to hand (of
the right version of Windows, with the right OEM/retail/upgrade level) and
with updates slipstreamed, but it's still no fun.

Then Windows will almost certainly need to be reactivated, which will
hopefully be done online, but sadly it often wants this doing long before
you've had a chance to install mobo drivers, so you have no network. Expect
to have to 'phone "Joe" in Mombai.

> What about WHS itself? Will it automatically detect it's HD's storage
pool
> even though it is on different SATA connections and controller?

Modern OSs use the UUID of the disk, or the superblocks thereon, so don't
really care how it's connected. Whether Windows counts as a modern OS is
open for debate!

Ian Oliver
Sunny Leeds, UK

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