Bare Metal Restore, with Partition increase
I'm wondering if this would be my best approach to migrating a Server 2003 box to a new server, mainly because of space issues. The current server is an 5 year old HP Prolient Server. We have purcahsed a new Dell PowerEdge 2900. The server is running great with no errors, but was configured with only a 10GB C Drive. I would like to see this setup with a 40GB C Drive. I'm wondering if a image backup of all the drives to an External HD, then a bare metal universal restore to the new Dell will allow me to increase the C Drive. There are 3 Partions on this box, all configured on one RAID-5 array. The space can be takin from the 3rd partion if need be, or the free space.
Please let me know your recommended approach. The other option I have is to bring up the new server in the domain, promote it, setup dhcp, dns, all software, sharepoint, data transfer, logon scripts, etc... - the first approach seems much easier and wouldn't mind testing a DRP situation.
Thanks,
John

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