Hi,
I was given a snap server quantum (same as a snap 1000 i believe) with a 15gb drive in, it worked OK, but the space was small and the drive noisy. I decided to upgrade and like many here, dropped in an old 75gb and waited...lights but no communication. So I looked for information and found this forum.
If you use XP and look at the share and untick hide system folders and files you will see a folder called "private os" you do not have permissions to delete it(or copy it I think). and this convinced me that part of the OS is on the drive. Next I followed Danz instructions as here :
"Download the cloning program from
www.e-mart.com, the program is clone-n-recover.
this program will allow you to clone your hd using byte-to-byte and sector-to-sector.
the lite version will only allow you to make a single clone and after that the program
will stop running, incase you need to re-run the program again you must override its
protection,to override the "security" of the program, unhide the file called
DOSFIT.DSK using attrib.exe and simply delete it, then run the program again.
read the help file of the program on how to use it.
1. set the snap hd to master and slave for the bigger HD
2. Duplicate the Snap1000 to a bigger HD (40GB that i use). using option 2 of the
clone-n-recover (CUSTOM Cloning).
make your Snap HD as the source and your bigger HD as the target.
(the cloning will take time to complete.) at least an hour.
3. After completing the cloning., attached your newly cloned HD to snap server
boot-up the snap
4. using your browser type in
http://yoursnapserver/config/debug
5. on the box type in "config devices format 10000 /reinit
6. Reboot the snap server, the snap should now start formatting the drive
Extra notes:
I took a crappy old PC and set up the 2 hard drives, old snap 15GB as master and the 75GB as slave, made a bootable floppy in xp and then transferred all the extracted files from the downloaded program on to it
The program i downloaded was dpcr.exe but it worked more or less the same.
I then ran the diskpro program after booting up from the floppy,it took 6 HOURS to clone the disk!!! be warned, at first I thought it had crashed.
After that I switched off, removed the drive,put the jumper from slave to cable select and put the disk back in the snap.
Then I followed steps 4 to 6 and rebooted. After a lengthy reformat, BINGO it worked. I have a quiet snap server with 8 times the space.
I have joined the forum just to let you guys know this proceedure works, and if I can help anyone else, let me know.
here is log from unit for last 3 steps if this helps read bottom to top:
I File System : Closed FDB for device 0x10006 Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:43:54
I File System : Closed FDB for device 0x10000 Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:43:53
I System Shutdown : In Progress... System 3/4/2009 20:43:52
I System Initialization : Initialization Complete! Memory to be released: 23261984 bytes. System 3/4/2009 20:35:59
I File System : Format complete Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:35:59
I File System : Opened FDB for device 0x10000 Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:35:59
I File System : Successfully initialized empty FDB for device 0x10000 Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:35:59
I DHCP/BOOTP: Setting IP address to 192.168.1.9 Network 3/4/2009 20:22:55
I File System : 75873MB in 9485 cyl groups (16 c/g, 8MB/g, 768 i/g) Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : /dev/ride0a: 155389328 sectors in 151748 cylinders of 16 tracks, 64 sectors Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : Warning: 624 sectors in last cylinder unallocated Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : Formatting /dev/ride0a Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : Process formatting device /dev/ride0a Disk 1 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : Format complete Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : Opened FDB for device 0x10006 Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : Successfully initialized empty FDB for device 0x10006 Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:46
I File System : 32MB in 4 cyl groups (16 c/g, 8MB/g, 768 i/g) Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:45
I File System : /dev/ride0g: 65536 sectors in 64 cylinders of 16 tracks, 64 sectors Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:45
I File System : Formatting /dev/ride0g Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:45
I File System : Process formatting device /dev/ride0g Disk (Priv) 3/4/2009 20:22:45
S System Initialization : Server v3.1.626
Build Date: Sep 19 2001 10:02:17
Boot Count: 106 System 3/4/2009 20:22:38