Hard Drive Upgrade

kjv1six11 · #1 October 19th, 2003, 01:15 AM

What is the easiest way to change the system/boot drive in a windows 2000 server from a 13 gig drive to a 40 or 80 gig drive? I want to perform the physical upgrade. The partition is NTFS and I am running active directory. Will Norton Ghost handle such a job? or is there another tool that I must use because of the transfer of the AD from one drive to the next?

Secondary question, I have a service that is failing to start upon boot. It is called DynoIO and I have no idea what it is associated with. I also found that BITS or Background Internet Transfer Service or (BITtorrent) somehow made it to my drive. I have disabled that service, but now know that the DynoIO may have appeared in such a manner. Please let me know.

**degsy** · #2 October 19th, 2003, 03:30 PM

Ghost should create a full image of the drive/partition and should work fine on your setup.

BitTorrent is a service to download TV Shows. I'm guessing someone has installed it to the PC.

kjv1six11 · #3 October 28th, 2003, 05:05 PM

Thanks for the info on the upgrade. I have used Ghost in the past. I am curious about the following though.

The Bit Torrent service I am familiar with, but I have never seen it show up as a service in the list of services on a windows 2000 server machine. The service is actually called Background Internet Transfer Service and I have currently disabled it and stopped it from running. I am the only user of this machine, and have never installed a file sharing software that may include the BitTorrent software. I have used the torrents in the past while trading tv shows, but that was on a completely different machine, using a different internet service while operating an IRC server...

I would like to sefely remove this service and another service called DynoIO, but I am having difficulty finding Microsoft's instructions for safe removal of services...

**Murf** · #4 October 28th, 2003, 10:57 PM

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l

There should be a key representing each installed program, and under the key you will find the information necessary for the application to be uninstalled.

kjv1six11 · #5 January 7th, 2004, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Murf

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I appreciate your attempt to help me, but you still have not understood that this issue is directly related to a SERVICE that is running on my computer. This SERVICE does not have any representative SOFTWARE that has been installed to cause this SERVICE to be running. I do not have any SOFTWARE on my computer that I wish to uninstall, but I do have a SERVICE that I would like to remove all traces of!

I am sorry that it has taken me so long to get back on this thread, but I have been without an ISP for a while.

Regarding my experience... I will not ask a question that just anybody will have an answer to. I am in no way trying to be conceited by saying that God has given me more knowledge about computers that any
other single person alive. So again, if I post a question, and you (Cybertech) assume that you (Cybertech) have answered the question with a single 2 or 3 line post, you probably most definatly wrong. With the exception of this issue. I believe there is an easy answer that escapes me for the removal of services.

If there is help to be had, I need it.

**Murf** · #6 January 8th, 2004, 01:53 AM

Sysocmgr.exe to programmatically remove Windows 2000 services.

Find the MS Article Here

kjv1six11 · #7 January 8th, 2004, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Murf

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Murf,

Thanks again for your help, but this information is no help either. The services that I am attempting to remove are not considered windows components.

I am attempting to remove 2 services that made their way to my machine by way of clever backdoor. The services are the Background Internet Transfer service and the DynoIO service. Neither of which are installed via any software listed on my machine.

If you know of a way to list services and their locations, that would be helpful information.

**Murf** · #8 January 8th, 2004, 04:17 AM

DUH, that was your original question, sorry.

W2K Services - I use this to tweak my systems.

I am checking around as one of the spyware programs may remove services. Since you got it through the "Back Door" then it may be able to be removed the same way. I use HiJackThis, but don't see where it can remove Services.

I'm still searching, as now I want to know. Hopefully someone else comes along. I'm going to post a "Help Wanted Add" in the Moderators forum, maybe we can get some hep, in the meantime I'm searching.

abemiami · #9 January 9th, 2004, 04:09 PM

Hello guys, any input will be greatly apreciated.

Going back to the upgrading the hard drive situation....here is my scenario:
I have a customer with a server that has 2 mirrored 20Gb hard drives, since they are mirrored they are dynamic thus ghost won't let me copy into a new drive. The main problem is that who ever installed the server (Win2k Std.) partitioned the drive in 3 partitions all NTFS, but the primary (System drive C) is too small and ran out of space. I was able to get some free space but not much, the most I could get is about 150Mb after cleaning all the logs, temp folders, cookies, temp internet filkes etc...
The third partition on the disk is empty (about 7Gb), I tryed to use partition magic to see if could delete that 3rd partition and split that space betweeen C and D, but partition Magic won't let I guess because it is a dynamic volume, cause I've done before with basic volumes and it works fine.

Please guys, I have a dead line on this, any input or sugestions will be greatly appreciated.....