Moving Fulltext files to a new drive

  • I am trying to move the Fulltext search files to a new drive on a clustered instance.

    Old Drive: G

    New Drive: H

    First I copied all the files exactly as they exist on the old drive.

    Then, I have followed the steps in the article: "How to move, copy, and back up full-text catalog folders and files".

    I still have a problem. I have made all the required registry changes and in fact did a search on the registry for the old drive letter (G:\) and changed every occurance to H.

    When I start the Fulltext resource it fails with this error:

    An error occurred during the online operation for instance : 80070003 - The system cannot find the path specified.

    I systematically renamed each folder in the old drive path until I learned it is the "Config" folder in this path that is causing the problem:

    G:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$DBSSQTSH\FTDATA\SQLServer$DBSSQTSH\Config

    If I rename the "config" folder in the old drive it fails, if I name it back it works.

    What am I missing? I cannot remove the old drive until I can get Fulltext search working with the new drive.

    Thanks

  • Im not sure I understand totally what your saying but with the error you are getting I would check to ensure that all nodes of the cluster indeed have a new H: drive designation and that in the cluster administrator the disk resource has the h: drive designation. I hope this helps.

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