Help with WHS > Server 2008 migration.

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I currently have a WHS installation (in my sig) that I want to migrate to Server 2008. I just need some help on moving all my files stored on it to the 500GB USB drive, so I can wipe the OS drive to install Server 2008.

Here is a SS of the Disk Managment screen:
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My reasons for doing this are that WHS is great, but I don't find myself using any of its unique features such as the PC backups and Add-Ins/Connector. Also, I have a class in Server 2008, so I want something I can also learn/play with at home and not just a VM.

Any help would be great.

Again, how would I go about moving all the data off the main drive, and on to the external 500GB USB drive so I can migrate to Server 2008. And yes, I know, I will be giving up "storage pool" feature, which is my only downside. I will adapt eventually.
 
Not really the answer I was looking for, but thanks. Do you have any experience with WHS? That's not possible. The "storage pool" implementation that WHS uses prevents direct manipulation of what files are on what specific drives.

If that wasn't the case, I would have no reason to post this.... As RDCing in and moving the files would the the obvious way to do it...
 
That's what I personally did on my WHS machine, however, I only had one drive in it at the time.
 
Install usb drive
In the disk mgmt addin, click add, there will be an option to add it as a backup drive to backup your WHS
Go to the backup page and configure backup for WHS
Run the backup
Verify data
Unplug usb drive
Install 2008
 
Well the USB drive in question is the one that is already added to the drive pool. I know that most of the data is already on it, but some could still be on the DATA partition of the system drive. And because I don't have any way of seeing where specifically the data is, I don't want to just wipe the system drive.
 
Try removing Disk 0 from the pool? Should move all the data over to the 500GB drive.
 
Disk 0 is the system drive, with the OS on it. Thats not really possible.
 
I plug in external, it shows up in windows explorer. I then copy and paste from the shares to my external. Problem solved.
 
yea... if you read what I said, you would know I coudn't do that. The USB drive I had was already part of the pool.
 
I would have removed the drive from the pool then do the copy+paste from the share, but what you found works just as well. Good to learn there's another way to go about doing it.
 
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