Hello, we have recently added an oracle database to my server, my boss would prefer we keep 100% of the computers resources to the oracle database and has insisted me to build a new server and put all of my stuff on it. The problem is that I have spent hours and hours configuring that server with exchange server, VPN, file sharing services, etc., the list goes on and on. This is every Network Administrators nightmare.
Bottom line I have made a clone of the hard drive via Acronis, I thought I might get lucky and have similar hardware that the new server I built and it would boot up, I was not so lucky, as expected I got blue screened. I want this to be as simple as possible and after looking around I found there is no recovery/repair install for windows server 2008 that I could use which would just simply write over the system files and install to the new PC hardware while keeping my system settings and configuration in place.
Does anyone have some thoughts on the best way to do this? I have already done repairs to the boot sector via CMD in the recovery disk, no luck. Anyway to copy the registry over or something like that? I just want all of my system settings and configurations transferred to the new server I built.
Thanks