Swapping in a new drive

[VCRUser]

I'm getting ready put a 12T drive in place of a 2T, which my server knows as drive F. I also have a Drive G as part of my setup. My plan is first to make sure I have backups of my wiz.bin, copy everything over, then power off, plug in the new drive, then power back up. Hopefully, the new drive will be recognized as Drive F from the start, and G will stay G. What it it doesn't and I have to manually re-assign the drives? Will Sage figure everything out or do I need to restore the backed-up wiz.bin?

Anything else I need to do before I start swapping?

[KeithAbbott]

Assuming you are running SageTV as a service, I would change the startup type to manual. That way you can verify that the drive letter(s) are assigned properly, and any other verification that you want to do. Once everything looks hunky-dory, you can start the service up and see if everything is functioning properly.

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by KeithAbbott

Assuming you are running SageTV as a service, I would change the startup type to manual.

Thanks - just to make sure I understand, I would do that in Administrative Tools | Services, which offers Manual / Automatic / Disabled -- not somewhere in a Sage configuration. Then when the letters are all confirmed to be assigned properly and manually-started Sage finds things where it is supposed to find them, go back in Services and put Sage back to Automatic (or whatever it was before). Right?

[SHS]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

Thanks - just to make sure I understand, I would do that in Administrative Tools | Services, which offers Manual / Automatic / Disabled -- not somewhere in a Sage configuration. Then when the letters are all confirmed to be assigned properly and manually-started Sage finds things where it is supposed to find them, go back in Services and put Sage back to Automatic (or whatever it was before). Right?

Just used the Sage configuration to disable it you can always enable later after you copy everything from old drive to new drive

1: Shut down install the new drive and restart the system
2: Copy everything from the old drive over to new drive and shut down the system.
3: Remove the old drive and swap over new drive in it places and restart the system.
4: Then open Disk Management (Run dialog box; enter the diskmgmt.msc command there to open the program) and find that drive you want change right click and reassign the drive letter to match the old 2TB drive letter and reboot.
5: Rerun Sage configuration and re-enable that service now your all done do final reboot now your all set.