I have read all the posts I could find on the subject of upgrading my primary hard drive and I am not sure that I have a definitive understanding of the process but I have enough information to attempt this task. What I do understand is that all my backups and account settings will be lost but my user data, music, videos, photos etc will be retained. Here is my situation;
- My current primary drive is a 250 GB drive on my first IDE channel, so IDE1, primary or master.
- The hard drive that I want to make my primary is on SATA port 1 and currently not part of the WHS storage pool
These are the steps I will take to accomplish the upgrade;
- Backup WHS data to an external source
- power off WHS system and add new hard drive and disconnect old primary drive
- change BIOS so that the SATA drive is what the system boots from
- boot from WHS CTP installation DVD
- select "server reinstallation" when prompted
- Let the rebuild process proceed, probably 2-3 hours.
Appreciate comments or advice from anybody who can confirm, clarify or correct what I ahve outlined here.
Thanks,
Kiwi