I just got done building a new UnRAID server after falling for the Xeon good deal and I figured while I'm upgrading everything else, I may as well upgrade my thumb drive from a 1 gig to a 16 gig drive and also go from a Plus to a Pro license.

 

However, I've run into a snag. I copied the old USB drive to the new drive (using windows) but the server gives me a boot error when I try to start it up.

 

I installed a fresh trial version of UnRAID and it boots just fine but I don't want to lose my configuration by starting again from scratch.

 

The replacement license instructions tell me to "Restore a complete backup of your previous flash device to the new device" which I did. Then it tells me to boot up, which doesn't work.

 

What am I doing wrong?

Have you run the make bootable.bat file on the new USB drive?

I just got done building a new UnRAID server after falling for the Xeon good deal and I figured while I'm upgrading everything else, I may as well upgrade my thumb drive from a 1 gig to a 16 gig drive and also go from a Plus to a Pro license.

 

However, I've run into a snag. I copied the old USB drive to the new drive (using windows) but the server gives me a boot error when I try to start it up.

 

I installed a fresh trial version of UnRAID and it boots just fine but I don't want to lose my configuration by starting again from scratch.

 

The replacement license instructions tell me to "Restore a complete backup of your previous flash device to the new device" which I did. Then it tells me to boot up, which doesn't work.

 

What am I doing wrong?

Try following these directions: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Upgrading_to_UnRAID_v6#Performing_the_upgrade

 

 

Have you run the make bootable.bat file on the new USB drive?

 

Ooops! I did run it, but before I copied the old drive over. I just ran it again, and it boots up just fine.

 

Now to replace my original license and then get the Pro upgrade.

 

Thanks for the speedy reply!

 

EDIT: All went well. I am now the much poorer owner of a UnRAID Pro server with dual Xeon E5-2670 processors. Thanks for the help!