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Moving windows 2000 hard drives to vista

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    Cecil Guest

    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




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    Bruce Chambers Guest

    Re: Moving windows 2000 hard drives to vista

    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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    Cecil Guest

    Re: Moving windows 2000 hard drives to vista

    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
    >


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