system disc replacement

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Hello.

We have win 2000 standrad with 2 scsi(36gb 10k) discs and it is the
primary domain controller in our domain(we have also win 2003 r2 as
second dc).
The first one-system with 2 partitions c:-system e:-user shares is
failing. It is reporting some errors in dell open manage and when it is
rebooted i have blue screen(this can be only resolved with recovery
consloe -chkdsk /f). Also scsi utilities reports bad sectors.


We have ordered new scsi disc which is 146gb 15k.
We want to replace failing disc with new one and reitain dc role.
I was thinking using acronis trueimage echo server.

If anyone has any expirence it'd be appreciated.

p.s. discs are not in raid and we have system state backup...
 
Re: system disc replacement

On Jul 4, 1:44 am, Tom <"znjicki[spam]"@yahoo.cmo> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We have win 2000 standrad with 2 scsi(36gb 10k) discs and it is the
> primary domain controller in our domain(we have also win 2003 r2 as
> second dc).
> The first one-system with 2 partitions c:-system e:-user shares is
> failing. It is reporting some errors in dell open manage and when it is
> rebooted i have blue screen(this can be only resolved with recovery
> consloe -chkdsk /f). Also scsi utilities reports bad sectors.
>
> We have ordered new scsi disc which is 146gb 15k.
> We want to replace failing disc with new one and reitain dc role.
> I was thinking using acronis trueimage echo server.
>
> If anyone has any expirence it'd be appreciated.
>
> p.s. discs are not in raid and we have system state backup...

It should be a simple matter to replace the disc and re-image it or
recover from backup.

Also you *could* install the disc, create a mirror and then remove the
failing disc. This might be risky however.
Personally I never run a production server without a mirror for the
system drive. If the server is as important as you say it's worth the
extra cost.
 
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