Howto migrate the system partion to another disk on Windows 2008 enterprise

migrationpartitionwindows-server-2008

I'm trying to move a windows 2008 system partition, on an older 1/2T drive to a new partition on a new drive. What would be the best way of doing it. I've had a look at the bcd registry using bcdedit to see if anything needds changed, and also looked at storage managed, and even though the cloner has done its work, the storage manager still reports that the old partition is Active, Primary, Boot, File Active, Crash Dump while the new is only Active, Primary. Do I need to use bcdedit to mark the new disk, although I thought the cloner would have done the whole jobs.

Any help would be appreciated.
Bob.

Well, I went ahead and had a mess about with the bcd store, after disconnecting the old c: drive and running easybcd. Ended up removing the windows 2003 dual boot option as well, ending with an unusable computer. Had to rebuild win 2k8 from scratch. Now

I have a new question. What settings to you use to add a legacy win 2003 config to the bcd store to enable the dual boot option. I tried to use easybcd, but I think it is a crock and it added a legacy boot.ini option which I don't think was their in the first place. I think it was {bootmgr}. Any help would be appreciated, as I am completely in the dark.

Bob.

Best Answer

We've been using Acronis, no problems. It clones drives just fine.

J.Ja