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    I plan on upgrading my WHS server I built with a new motherboard, CPU, Memory, etc. I currently have two 1TB Hitachi drives. All is well. However, Can I just install these drives with my WHS system into new hardware? Will there be an issue?

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    Abe
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 6:10 AM

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    Hi Abe,
    this depends.
    If the hardware is in the same family (chipset, CPU) and not a big change (like AMD to Intel or vice versa) the chances are good, that the system can boot and you can add the remaining drivers. Ideally the SATA controller on both the old and the new system should be configured to IDE (ATA/PATA) compatibility in the Bios, if this is not the case on the first system, you may have to test the various modes on the second system). Also the primary disk must be attached to the first SATA port on the new board to be detected as drive 0 and boot drive.
    Product activation may also kick in.

    If the system does not boot (usually due to stop error 0x0000007B), use the WHS DVD and perform a server reinstall. This is an installation mode, which wipes only the C: drive and keeps the data intact. If you don't get this offered (also with IDE mode enabled for the SATA controller), the things are getting more complicated and you should take a look into this FAQ or come back to here.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:32 PM
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    Hi Abe,
    this depends.
    If the hardware is in the same family (chipset, CPU) and not a big change (like AMD to Intel or vice versa) the chances are good, that the system can boot and you can add the remaining drivers. Ideally the SATA controller on both the old and the new system should be configured to IDE (ATA/PATA) compatibility in the Bios, if this is not the case on the first system, you may have to test the various modes on the second system). Also the primary disk must be attached to the first SATA port on the new board to be detected as drive 0 and boot drive.
    Product activation may also kick in.

    If the system does not boot (usually due to stop error 0x0000007B), use the WHS DVD and perform a server reinstall. This is an installation mode, which wipes only the C: drive and keeps the data intact. If you don't get this offered (also with IDE mode enabled for the SATA controller), the things are getting more complicated and you should take a look into this FAQ or come back to here.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:32 PM
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    I recently replace the motherboard and system drive of my WHS with the D945gclf2 atom 330 and then took the old 120gig IDE system drive and threw it in a Dell Dimension 2400 with a GEFORCE FX 5500 PCI video card so that I could see if I could install windows 7 beta on this old dell.

    My better half called out to me as I was doing the Win7 install and I miss the press any key to boot off DVD and by the time I finished talking to her WHS was up and running on my screen on the old dell.  That disk had previously been on an ASUS P5S800 VM board with SIS chips and it figured out what it need to function on the old dell so you never know.  This got me curious to see what would work on this and from the limited pokng around that I did it seems most stuff , video, lan, sharing, etc was all fine (I had renamed the WHS and set to a different static IP while I was installing the new one so  to the network it was no different on the old dell)

    So give it try and post the results.

    By the way the Win7 beta install runs just fine(surprising well) on the Old Dell Dimension 2400 Cel 2.4 768k mem with the following performance rating:

    Component Details Subscore Base score
    Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz 2.8     OVERALL SCORE:  2.7
      Determined by lowest subscore
     
    Memory (RAM) 768 MB                                                         SCORE: 3.9
    Graphics NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500                                      SCORE:  2.9
    Gaming graphics 379 MB Total available graphics memory SCORE:  2.7
    Primary hard disk 32GB Free (39GB Total)                          SCORE: 4.3
    Windows 7 Ultimate

    Life is just full of surprises.
    Monday, January 19, 2009 4:17 PM