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Posted by scoots987 on 11/28/07 02:07
On Nov 27, 4:40 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> scoots987 (scoots...@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
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
> Books Online for SQL Server 2000 athttp://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
Great and obvious solution that I didn't even think about. However,
the server has a RAID configuration and wonder how to do that? If the
databases are on a separate drive can this drive be RAID and the
operating system on non RAID? Or other configuration?
Thanks!
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