system disc replacement

[Guest Tom]

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]

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.