Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/27/07 22:40

scoots987 (scoots987@gmail.com) writes:
> I have a Windows 2003 server with SQL Server 2005 installed. The
> server is on small drive and we would like to upgrade to much larger
> harddrives. I've been hearing of problems using Ghost to get an image
> and placing the image onto the new drive. I think this is more of a
> Windows 2003 problem, but this server is for nothing but the SQL
> Server databases. Does anyone have a clear method of moving this
> server to the larger drives?

Why not just keep the SQL Server installation on the current drive,
and move only the databases to the new drives?

This KB article may be helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;224071

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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