Move to new computer

Moving a HD

[rustypp]

Hi people I hope you can help.

I have a windows server setup and sometime in the future I would like to upgrade it to a better faster computer, how can I move the hard drive to the new computer without having to start from scratch, as a test I took the current drive and put it into another computer that is faster when windows 2000 started to boot I got the blue screen of death, I assume the problem is the different hard ware?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld rustypp.

Each Windows install configures itself to your hardware, so unfortunately you can't just swap drives. Windows XP has a wizard called the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard". This XP tool can help transfer your settings from older 9.x PCs, but I've never heard of this for a server.

Honestly speaking I don't think I'd want to do anything but a clean install of a new server OS. If I couldn't run the older server in parallel while I was updating I might consider some of the Virtual Server packages out there to use as a reference until the new server was configured properly.

[rustypp]

Not sure if it matters but its windows 2000 professional with apache PHP Pearl Msql installed and configured its not a windows 2000 server build.

I rather not do a fresh install, I am no professional I have no boubt a fresh install would take me 2 weeks and I dont know how to merge all the old data into the new install, guessing that will be another week and many problems?

Their must be a easier faster way to upgrade the hardware, I tried the windows repair thing off the install disc in hopes it would find the new hardware and make the changes but got a bunch of errors I didnt understand..

Any other ideas?

Thanks again