Guest Tom Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Hello. We have win 2000 standrad with 2 scsi(36gb 10k) discs and it is the primary domain controller in our domain(we have also win 2003 r2 as second dc). The first one-system with 2 partitions c:-system e:-user shares is failing. It is reporting some errors in dell open manage and when it is rebooted i have blue screen(this can be only resolved with recovery consloe -chkdsk /f). Also scsi utilities reports bad sectors. We have ordered new scsi disc which is 146gb 15k. We want to replace failing disc with new one and reitain dc role. I was thinking using acronis trueimage echo server. If anyone has any expirence it'd be appreciated. p.s. discs are not in raid and we have system state backup...
Guest SF Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 Re: system disc replacement On Jul 4, 1:44 am, Tom <"znjicki[spam]"@yahoo.cmo> wrote: > Hello. > > We have win 2000 standrad with 2 scsi(36gb 10k) discs and it is the > primary domain controller in our domain(we have also win 2003 r2 as > second dc). > The first one-system with 2 partitions c:-system e:-user shares is > failing. It is reporting some errors in dell open manage and when it is > rebooted i have blue screen(this can be only resolved with recovery > consloe -chkdsk /f). Also scsi utilities reports bad sectors. > > We have ordered new scsi disc which is 146gb 15k. > We want to replace failing disc with new one and reitain dc role. > I was thinking using acronis trueimage echo server. > > If anyone has any expirence it'd be appreciated. > > p.s. discs are not in raid and we have system state backup... It should be a simple matter to replace the disc and re-image it or recover from backup. Also you *could* install the disc, create a mirror and then remove the failing disc. This might be risky however. Personally I never run a production server without a mirror for the system drive. If the server is as important as you say it's worth the extra cost.
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