Partition Magic Software Partition magic software for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, etc.
Install a new server disk
- Scenario: Installing a New Server Disk
ServerMagic is useful if you have a new, larger hard disk that you want to become the boot disk for your server. ServerMagic save you the time of having to reinstall Windows NT or 2000, and ensures that the new server disk contains exactly the same information as the old server disk.
1. Install any drivers you may need for the new drive onto the server operating system. Usually this step is required only if you are installing a new I/O card on your system and you did not install the drivers previously.
2. Shut down the server and turn off the power.
3. Install the new drive as a non-boot device.
This step may require changes to the drive jumper, BIOS, or I/O card settings. Consult your hardware manuals for more information.
4. Power on the server and configure the drive.
This step is necessary only if you are adding a new RAID system and need to set the RAID level before booting to the operating system.
5. Boot the server to the operating system.
6. Use ServerMagic to copy all partitions on the current drive to the new drive.
7. Resize the partitions as desired.
8. Designate the operating system partition as the active partition.
9. Apply all your changes in ServerMagic.
ServerMagic will reboot the server and apply all changes in boot-time mode.
10. Immediately after ServerMagic applies all the operations and reboots the server, turn off the power.
11. Remove the old drive from the server. Keep the driver unchanged until you confirm that the new disk boots properly.
12. Change the new drive to be the boot device.
This step may require changes to the drive jumper, BIOS, or I/O card settings. Consult your hardware manuals for more information.
13. Turn on the server.
The server should boot from the new disk. Make sure that all drive letters on your server match the drive letters previously assigned.
Windows NT/2000 will detect changes to the operating environment and may reassign drive letters on the new drive to a different order from what you had previously. The drive letters must be in the same order on your new drive for your server to function properly. If the Windows NT/2000 operating system partition drive letter is incorrect you may need to reboot your server more than once to return it back to the desired letter.
Server Magic Help
- General
- Apply Changes
- Undo last Change
- Discard All Changes
- Change preferences
- Password-protect ServerMagic
- Change a password
- Remove password Protection
- Boot a remote server using the remote agent boot disks
- Connect to a remote agent
- Exit PartitionMagic
- View
- Operations
- Hard Disk Integrity Checks
- Resize a partition
- Resize a volume set
- Move a partition
- Move a volume segmen
- Copy a partition
- Copy and consolidate volume sets
- Create a partition
- Delete a partition
- Delete a partition/volume set
- Undelete a partition
- Change a partition label
- Format a partition/volume set
- Convert FAT to FAT32 or NTFS to FAT/FAT32
- Convert FAT to HPFS
- Convert FAT/FAT32 to NTFS
- Convert FAT32 to FAT
- Convert a partition to Primary/Logical
- Merge a partition
- Split a partition
- View partition information
- Check a partition for errors
- Use windows checkDisk to check for errors
- View pending operations
- Advanced
- Change a drive letter
- Retest bad sectors
- Hide a partition
- Resize the root directory
- Set the active partition
- Resize clusters
- Tools
- Create Rescue Disks
- Boot disk builder
- Script Builder
- Partition Info
- Wizards
- Use a wizard
- Create New Partition
- Resize Partitions
- Redistribute Free Space
- Merge Partitions
- Copy Partition
- Display/hide task buttons
- Scenarios
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