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Hijinxx
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16 years ago

Restoring HP Proliant without the Data partition?

 I have a HP Proliant DL360 with one HDD with 2 partitions, C: the Data drive created during setup and E: the OS.

I am trying to restore just the E: partion to another server, a HP Proliant DL380, but it will not boot after doing a restore as I do not have the boot info of the C: drive. How can I get aroung this? And do I need to you restore Anywhere if moving from a Proliant DL360 to DL380?

 

Thx

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  • marcogsp's avatar
    marcogsp
    16 years ago
    For the C: drive, go ahead and set the drive active, Restore the MBR, and Reset the original drive signature.  I do it as a matter of course for all my restores.  Supposedly it is not required, but it doesn't harm anything, and saves having to do it later in case the original restore does not work.  If you are confident that the hardware is very similar, then you can skip the Restore Anyware option.

    For Drive E: the only option required is the restore original drive signature.

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  • Hijinxx's avatar
    Hijinxx
    Level 3
    16 years ago
     Hi 

    Sorry for the late reply, was away for the weekend. Unfortunatly it is the case that the boot.ini ect.. are on the C: partion of the original system. I tried coping them over to the new system and just changing the boot.ini  and it looked good for a while but then windows had error at startup probably because the drive letter dosent correspond to the old server.    I will try to restore both partitions but last time I did that it swaped the drive letters around. Is it possible to change the drive letters in the recovery enviroment?


    Thx again.
  • marcogsp's avatar
    marcogsp
    Level 6
    16 years ago
    Yes you can do this.  Just select the option to "Restore original disk signature"  and it'll be done auto-magically.
  • Hijinxx's avatar
    Hijinxx
    Level 3
    16 years ago
     Ok got that. now im restoring both drives what options do i need for each one? On the original system the C: drive contained the NTLDR, ntdetect.com and boot.ini files, and the E: drive contained the OS. Whit that in mind when restoring the C: drive do i need Set Drive active and Restore MBR, restore oringinal drive signiture I am sure I do? And like wise when restoreing the E: drive what options should I have ticked there? 
  • marcogsp's avatar
    marcogsp
    Level 6
    16 years ago
    For the C: drive, go ahead and set the drive active, Restore the MBR, and Reset the original drive signature.  I do it as a matter of course for all my restores.  Supposedly it is not required, but it doesn't harm anything, and saves having to do it later in case the original restore does not work.  If you are confident that the hardware is very similar, then you can skip the Restore Anyware option.

    For Drive E: the only option required is the restore original drive signature.
  • Hijinxx's avatar
    Hijinxx
    Level 3
    16 years ago
     Finally i got it too work. I had the reformat and partition the drive and do restore anywhere on both partition with a newer recovery disk and it looks good.


    Thank you very much for all your help.