Without knowing what the hardware is it's difficult to advise any precise
route, but have you considered imaging the disk instead of reinstalling? If
the OS will boot on the new hardware, then you have far less work to do that
for a migration. At least this wouldn't take more than a few hours to
investigate, and if you use a cloned copy of the system disk, nothing is lost
if it doesn't work.
Main issue would be if the source is a RAID array. That can make imaging
very difficult.
Various imaging apps are available, Acronis tools are very good. For free
tools, Linux dd or Ranish Partition Manager can duplicate entire disks to a
destination of same capacity. Be aware that some versions of dd have the
137GB problem, though.
I would be inclined to make a disk image and experiment on the image. That
way you lose nothing if it won't work, but you're home and dry if it does.
If it bugs-out with an inaccessible-disk message, you may need to install a
new disk-interface driver with the image disk booted on the old hardware
before transferring it.
I would also suggest that this scenario be taken as a salutary lesson to
anyone running a single-DC Active Directory, with no standby hardware. IMHO,
this situation nearly as unwise as having no backups at all. There are
numerous SBS sites in this situation, and frankly I don't know how their
owners can sleep at night. One failed transistor in a chip with 120million of
the things on it... and their business is shot.
"thewhitefriar" wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have badly failing hardware on a SBS2K3 box we have had for some
> while. I am working hard to try and migrate to some new hardware using
> MS instructions
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...54(WS.10).aspx) and am
> having problem after problem.
>
> Having finally got to a state where the dcdiag is free, I just get error
> after error (seems like they are different everytime) when I try to
> reinstall Exchange. The latest one is "Setup failed while installing
> sub-component Exchange ActiveSync with error code 0x80072030"
>
> Any help would be very gratefully receiving - this is turning into a
> nightmare!
>
> Gareth
>
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