Need Help Upgrading Hardware in WHS V1

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yossarian

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I'm planning on changing my WHS MB and CPU, and while I'm at it the system HD.

I currently have a 160GB IDE system drive and two 1TB data drives at 44% full each. I want to get a new SATA system drive since the 160GB drive is old, as is the system board. I want a system that's 64-bit capable for the upcoming WHS Vail.

I've seen some pieces of info on how to do it, so based on that this is my plan:

1. Back up the file D:\folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4} on an external drive.

2. Replace the hardware and reinstall WHS on the new system drive using "server reinstallation".

3. Reinstall service packs and add-ins.

Doing this the WHS will find the data drives and add them and their data into the pool, right?

Also, has anyone had a problem using a SATA drive as the system drive? I had to use the IDE drive because on the current system couldn't find the SATA drive I tried using initially. I don't know if it's because the VIA chipset driver didn't work for WHS, or the WHS just can't find SATA drives easily.
 
You can swap the motherboard and cpu without having to reinstall WHS. I just migrated from a G41 motherboard to a 760G one and the operation couldn't be easier. Once rebooted, WHS took maybe 5 minutes reconfiguring the hardware and found all my drives. All I had to do was to install the AMD drivers.

As for changing the system drive, it can be a tedious procedure, but it can be done.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1494004&highlight=guide
 
Yossarian,
When I started fresh earlier this year on my WHS, I back up all my data off the server from D: share to other drives outside the system. Once done put in my new motherboard and sata system drive and all has been well since.

I have used IDE and Sata in the same system prior to this build too.
 
my advice would be to just backup the data on a separate drive if u dont have a ton of data. then you can try a reintegration, but if it fails, you can always just reinstall fresh and simply copy the data over.
 
deanx0r said:
You can swap the motherboard and cpu without having to reinstall WHS. I just migrated from a G41 motherboard to a 760G one and the operation couldn't be easier. Once rebooted, WHS took maybe 5 minutes reconfiguring the hardware and found all my drives. All I had to do was to install the AMD drivers.

As for changing the system drive, it can be a tedious procedure, but it can be done.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1494004&highlight=guide
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i thought if u wanted to change out the system drive all you had to do was do a reinstall of whs on the new drive, using the repair method and the new system drive would then seekout the headstones on whatever storage drives it found and reintegrate them intop the system. wasnt this supposed to be the failsafe in case your sys drive failed? doesnt make much sense to not be able to do that.
 
That was the answer I got when I asked about cloning my system drive to a larger one. Supposedly, WHS maps all hdd added with their serial number.

I haven't heard about the repair method you mentioned. I have noticed that WHS avoid putting any kind of data on the system drive, but what if your system drive is a 500GB with 50% of data on it? WHS won't allow you to move data from your system drive. So figures... if you use the repair method, you are most likely to lose data from your system drive.
 
Really for that little amount of data and the fact that you want to switch boards i would just get a new drive and new mobo and do a completely new install and copy over your 800gb of data and then add the 1tb drives back.

It will be much faster and pain free.

If you want to retain your PC backups let me know and i can walk you through that.
 
I've copied my shared folders to my PC. I'd like to keep the backups but it's no huge deal if they're gone I suppose. I didn't have a hard drive big enough to copy the backups file, so I'm taking my chances. I'll just remove my IDE drive for now, and try either a reinstall or new install. It seems that a reinstall would be easier, right?
 
well if you do a new installation with only the new system drive, you can attach all your old drives after the fact and then add back all of your users accounts and PC backups.
copy over this folder. D:\folders\{00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4}
And then copy the shared folder contents back.
Redo your web config and reinstall add-ins and setup the old user accounts.
 
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