I have had WHS installed on a true server - a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with a RAID 5 SCSI array configured as a single 400 Gb dive. I need to use that box for other things and need to move WHS to a different box that will have an 80 GB drive and a 1TB drive.
I am an IT consultant and used some of the tools I have at work to try to backup and restore the server to the new box.
So on the old box I used ShadowProtect to backup the sytem volume and data volume and then restored them onto the 80GB and 1TB drive respectively. That worked beautifully from a basic Windows perspective. Windows booted, loaded all the new drivers, data
is present and accessible locally and over the network, all the non WHS services started.
However the WHS console says it is missing a drive and shows both new drives as new unused drivers. I can add them but they will get formatted. I really don't want to reinstll and have to copy all my data off the old box and onto the new one. I use Carbonite
backup and it will take a month or more to resync if I do that. the ShadowProtect backup and restore works great in a normal coporate envrionment but they don't have the WHS drive extender stuff to mess with.
I don't mind getting down and dirty and use a backdoor method to get this done. I really really really don't want to rebuild from scratch. Is there any way I can get this done
