I am having a Windows Home Server (WHS) in which my main system hard drive started to fail. Since it was still somewhat readable I figured I’ll copy everything to a new, larger hard drive. I wanted to re-install the system anyway because it started to be a bit flaky (probably the hard drive dying), but I didn’t want to loose all the computer backups which I had saved (multiple revisions and a few computers I had backed up for keeping just in case).
So I transferred the partitions from my old 250GB IDE drive onto the new 2TB SATA drive (making sure the old C:\ stayed at 20GB and only the new D:\ partition was enlarged – very important!), inserted the WHS install disc and started the re-install…until I came to the point where it should allow me to choose between a New Installation and a ReInstall – but it only offered me a New Install. So I started searching and thinking…
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