Moving windows 2000 hard drives to vista

Hello;

I have a new machine on the way that is running vista business. I need to
physically move 2 windows 2000 small business server EIDE drives into the new
machine. I have removed security restrictions on the drives and given full
access on the drives to "everyone". I will probably want to "take ownership"
of the drives when they get moved but is there anything else that I am
missing? Anyone else do this and can show me the pitfalls?

Thanks in advance.
Cecil

Cecil wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I have a new machine on the way that is running vista business. I need to
> physically move 2 windows 2000 small business server EIDE drives into the new
> machine. I have removed security restrictions on the drives and given full
> access on the drives to "everyone". I will probably want to "take ownership"
> of the drives when they get moved but is there anything else that I am
> missing?


Will the new computer have an EIDE controller to which you can connect
the hard drives?


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Bruce,

Thank you for your reply! Yes the new computer will have an IDE controller
one way or the other. If there isn't one installed I have already checked on
a PCI card that will give me 4 IDE channels for the 2 hard drives and
possibly even moving a DVD RW.

I am wondering what I should do with permissions, taking ownership, and
things of that nature to prep the drives for the move 1) to a new machine and
2) to a different OS. They are both NTFS drives. One is data only and the
other is the boot / OS drive.

Thank you for your reply!
Cecil

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

> Cecil wrote:
> > Hello;
> >
> > I have a new machine on the way that is running vista business. I need to
> > physically move 2 windows 2000 small business server EIDE drives into the new
> > machine. I have removed security restrictions on the drives and given full
> > access on the drives to "everyone". I will probably want to "take ownership"
> > of the drives when they get moved but is there anything else that I am
> > missing?
>
>
> Will the new computer have an EIDE controller to which you can connect
> the hard drives?
>
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> Help us help you:
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
>
> Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
>