On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Mark wrote:
I have a server box with 2003 loaded that seems to have fried a northbridge (south?) chip because the fan on it locked up and let me tell you it was smokin hot. Any way there was a huge database on the data drive that got corrupted and even after getting the fan working again the system is not stable any more. So I need to get a motherboard and chip combo and rebuild the box. My question is I know you can not just throw the drive in the new box and expect it to come back after redoing a few drivers and files like the old days with 98 so in order to not have to do more work than necessary what from the server 2003 install can I copy over so that I do not have to start from scratch?? It is a file and terminal server with an office management software running with an access datbase and users logging into it locally and remotely.
First: Get a good ghost type image of the drive and anything you do do to the ghost.
I hate to do the whole "Move the drive to a new computer" option with a server OS because it has to be rock stable. I would install 2003 on the new system and migrate the data over that way.
It is going to be time consuming, but do you really want to have to worry about this server in the future? You'll never be sure that some glitch isn't because of the way you moved the data over.
Is this on a domain? You could get the users setup with a roaming profile for terminal services and have everyone log in and out once to get that data onto a data server somewhere, so when they log in again they get their profile back with no reconfiguration.
If not on a domain you'll run into a bit more of a problem. Moving the users profiles over will be... fun.
If you ghost the system first and do any experimenting with that you might be able to install drivers and the like prior to switching to the new hardware. Worth a try anyways.
Christopher Fisk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
