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Installing old pc image of Win 2003 to Poweredge 2600 using Acronis 2012
I have made a Acronis backup of a Windows 2003 server installation on a regular IDE disk on an old server.
Now I want to install the image on a Dell Poweredge 2600 server that has 4 disks, 2 arrays that makes 2 physical drives.
I use Acronis 2012 and it has an option to add drivers.
Im now downloading the drivers for Dell Poweredge 2600
I see that its mostly .exe files.
That must mean that I need to run every .exe to unpack the drivers and then copy them to a locatiion where the Acronis installation can read them, right ?
How do I do that without installing them on the PC I use to unpack ?
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PCPROFFSEN
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July 16th, 2013 03:00
Now I got problems booting Acronis True Image Home 2012 (v.15xx) on the Poweredge 2600... and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server
Errors appear about "unable to load initial RAMDISK", "unable to load Linux kernel "...
"Unable to execute program, Press Enter to Proceed...
PCPROFFSEN
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July 16th, 2013 03:00
When I get Acronis to boot properly and show the disks, I can see my RAID DISK as Unallocated and only 68,24 GB, but it is larger (about 300 GB)...
And then when it works to boot on Acronis CD, I can browse the USB disc, and I can see the folder where I saved the image, but the image itself is not visible ...
PCPROFFSEN
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July 16th, 2013 03:00
I thought I should add the drivers after booting Acronis, when restoring an image.
How can I add the drivers before ?
To the Acronis bood cd?
PCPROFFSEN
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July 16th, 2013 03:00
Ok, now I tried Acronis 2013
I come as far as "choose destination discs"
But the disk that I want to recover to(that still has the wrong size, 68,24GB) is greyed out.
And thats because it doesent fit the image that is 90 GB...
Hamboney
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July 16th, 2013 05:00
wrt the RAMDisk error. How much memory is in the system and what is/are the min. required by Acronis ?
Hamboney
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July 16th, 2013 05:00
See my post earlier in the thread: 4 Jul 2013 6:01 AM
PCPROFFSEN
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July 18th, 2013 02:00
"When you are using the Acronis CD/DVD you are running a WinPE OS and should provide it with the appropriate RAID drivers (matched by WinPE OS version and Architecture - 32-bits 64-bit)
You will need those drivers to read the source and target devices..."
A PE disc is made when having an OS up and running on the specific computer as far as I understand,
I can not make a PE disc when nothing is installed on this server.
Maybe I can install a clean version of Win2003Server on it, then Install Acronis and make a WinPE disk, then use it to clone the disc from the other Server...?
A lot of workarounds here, and very timeconsuming ...
Hamboney
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July 18th, 2013 04:00
These aren't workarounds, these are the tools you need to perform the job. You said you had Acronis on CD, therefore you have the WinPE disc. :o)
You want to build a server, therfore you need the drivers. If you are on the Internet then you have a system to get the drivers.
You are right, until you figure it out it is time consuming. Then again how time consuming is it to rebuild a server and re-create it's workload. That is the balance you need to consider.
If it is faster to re-install from scratch, then do it. It is always better to have a fresh install.
Good luck !
PCPROFFSEN
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July 22nd, 2013 17:00
A new problem came up.
I tried to make a fresh install of Win 2003 Server.
But none of my CDs seem to work.
Eather they doesnt boot at all, or gets an error like "memory overflow"
And adding a USB CDROM doesnt seem to work, its not found in bios...
PCPROFFSEN
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July 26th, 2013 02:00
Ok, I found one of my OEM CDs that work to boot.
But even then when I get to "create partition" the only choice is one that is 68GB...
Its 320GB in the RAID settings...
PCPROFFSEN
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July 28th, 2013 03:00
I can add drivers at the installation, but only from a fluppy disc, so stupid...
PCPROFFSEN
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August 1st, 2013 05:00
Correction, I have 4 disks that are 73 GB (68 GB formatted).
Now I just need to make a raid 5, and make 2 partitions on it (if a Poweredge 2600 can handle that)
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August 1st, 2013 08:00
The 2600 (rather, its controllers) can handle a RAID 5 ... it doesn't care about partitions - that is up to the OS. Unless, of course, you are talking about "slicing" the disks - creating multiple logical drives across the disks (each appearing as a separate "disk" in the OS). I would NOT do this, as it would be unnecessarily complicated for the controller and could lead to problems down the road.