It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I'm moving my Small Business Server to newer hardware.
If I boot in safe mode I can see that it's loading lots of drivers and the BSOD happens when it tries to switch into the graphical boot. That means the drive isn't totally inaccessible. I'm currently operating under the theory that this is caused by the fact that my original Server doesn't have drivers for the SATA controller on the new motherboard. The early part of the boot process must be handled by the BIOS and it only fails when Windows tries to take over the file access.
I know you can use F6 during a fresh install to add drivers but that doesn't seem to help me since I'm not installing fresh. Even so, I have not been able to track down SATA drivers for this board even though I have found all the other drivers on Intel's site.
It appears that there aren't specific drivers for the SATA controller. I made sure I can always go back to the old hardware but I'd really like to get this running on the newer hardware. The hardware is pretty similar - it's not like I'm doing a major hardware upgrade, it's even the same processor and this mainboard is really similar to one this install used to run on. The old hardware failed so I had to quickly move to new hardware, now I'm trying to move it back to the replacement hardware Intel sent as a warranty replacement.
After this, you can look for drivers from your motherboard's chipset manufacturer that will allow you to change it back after you have loaded your OS. Hope this helps, Good Luck. What you're doing may seem trivial, but it's not.
Disk imaging software makes it easy to do things that the operating system can't cope with easily. You're not going to have an easy road of this if you try and do this in this fashion. Disk imaging the machine and moving it to another box is seductive but you're not doing anything to help the resulting machine's stability. I'm missing a lot of tiny little steps in there and, to be honest, I can't remember if that whole procedure works on SBS or not.
If I were doing this I'd bring up SBS in a lab on a VM, populate it with some bogus users, mailboxes, public folders, and data, and then do the entire migration scenario from top to bottom twice once making notes and gathering data, and the second time as a "dry run".
Windows Server was made before drives got bigger than GB. Therefore, it can, by default, only use GB of the drive. If the drive is bigger than that, even if the boot partition is smaller it appears that it can't read the partition table correctly.
The solution is to add that registry key before putting it on the new drive. There's an MSKB article about it here. I booted it up on the new hardware and installed all the drivers for that mainboard. With some research I found out about the EnableBigLba registry key. I set up that key and rebooted and the SATA drive showed up with all it's partitions. I imaged the updated version of system drive and applied the image over the primary partition on the SATA drive. Now, I'm not saying this is the best way to upgrade a Small Business Server.
I'm sure Evan is right about a server migration being the "best" way to do it but I've already invested enough time in this and my window of opportunity for the server changes is about to close. I'm thinking now that I have a working image of the drive I'm going to try an in-place upgrade to SBS It will only take 30 minutes to roll back to where I am now if things go haywire.
Sign up to join this community. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by razorray11 Unsolved. Any ideas? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 6. Support CD: If you do not have access to the Internet, then start by browsing the support CD included with the motherboard. Let Windows run through all of its setup routines and updates.
I just tried your instructions and I could not get it to work. I work for a community college and we like to configure one machine and ghost the image to the others. Also we save our syspreped image to a server for quick recovery if need be. We have a volume license for our version of windows xp so we like to strip off whatever comes with the computer and we install all of our licensed software on our new computers. I am trying to in a sense boot off of the windows xp cd to install a fresh copy to one of the new computers to image to the others.
I install the sata raid driver per your instructions and it acts like it is going to work but then i get the blue screen of death every time. I imagine that the process is about the same for win2k but I am using windows xp service pack 1. I would appreciate any help on this. I bought this machine had to run it on windows pro due to company requirement. I wasn't able to run the setup no matter what I tried.
What I found out is that the R All you have to do is get that file of the CD that came with your system or dells website. Already have an account? Sign in here. MSFN is made available via donations, subscriptions and advertising revenue. The use of ad-blocking software hurts the site. Please disable ad-blocking software or set an exception for MSFN. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. FantasyAcquiesce Posted June 24, Posted June 24, Thank you for your time!
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