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GHOST on a PE 1800
Hello,
We've run out of space on a Poweredge 1800 with a CERC SATA1.5/6ch controller and will be replacing all the drives w/ upgraded storage space.
In order to avoid re-installing Windows Server 2003, we'd like to ghost the Windows partition onto the new set of disks.
Will I need special drivers in order for GHOST to see the controllers? I was planning on backing up the image to an external USB drive but am worried that GHOST won't be able to see the SATA RAID controller.
Thanks for any help,
John
Adaptation4One
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Posted November 16th, 2008 16:00
If your Ghost 3rd party software needs the cerc controller driver, then you can get it from our support.dell.com driver downloads site. If it doesn't then let the software back it up to the external hard drive and then re-create the array with the new bigger upgraded hard drives. Then after backing up the data, you have to first re-create the array configuration on those new sets of disks on another server and can put it in this server in question. It's usually safe practice to backup the data and then re-install the OS and restore the data. You can take that method or migrate the new hard drives from an identical server and copy the image over to it and then put the in this server.