RE: Basic volumes in Windows Upgrade Compatibility

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:25:52 -0800

Thanks for your reply Bob.

Assuming that DiskPart works particularly the 'convert
dynamic', I would like to hear from this community if
someone had really used the 'convert basic'. Although I
have a rollback server to be taken offline but in case
there'll be any hiccups during the upgrade, I need my
PDC/File server to join back the NT domain and obviously,
the shared files on the same server to be accessible by my
users.

TIA.

Best regards, Archie
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Archie,
>
>Thanks for your posting here.
>
>I found the following information in Windows 2003 Help
document.
>
>======
>the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems does
not support mirror
>sets, stripe sets, stripe sets with parity, or volume
sets created in
>Windows NT 4.0.
>
>These multidisk volumes must be backed up and deleted, OR
otherwise
>converted to dynamic disks prior to installing the
Windows Server 2003
>family of operating systems.
>
>If you did not back up the volumes before you upgraded to
the Windows
>Server 2003 family of operating systems, you can access
these volumes using
>the FTOnline utility. You can install the FTOnline
utility using the
>Support Tools setup program located in the \Support\Tools
folder on the
>Windows XP Professional and the Windows Server 2003
family of operating
>systems CDs.
>======
>
>Based on the information above, I think you can also try
to use DiskPart
>tool to convert to dynamic disks.
>
>Have a nice day!
>
>Regards,
>Bob Qin
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> From: "Archie" <archiecastillo@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Basic volumes in Windows Upgrade
Compatibility
> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:15:31 -0800
> Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.server.migration
>
> Hi there,
> I hope someone can shed some light on my case that
would
> probably save my time restoring the backups.
> We are planning to do an in-place upgrade from NT
to 2003
> of which I'm using the article "Migrating from
Microsoft®
> Windows NT® Server 4.0 to Windows ServerT 2003:
> A Guide for Small and Medium Organizations" as my
guide.
> When I run x:\I386\winnt32 /checkupgradeonly on an
NT4 PDC
> (also a file server), it came up with some
compatibility
> issues. One of them is as shown below:
> Basic volumes created using Windows NT 4.0 in the
boot,
> system or paging drives
> In my quest to find a solution, I found from the
Win 2003
> Help that running (Diskpart - list disk - select
disk n -
> convert dynamic) before the upgrade would actually
convert
> the basic disks to dynamic.
> However, on the same article mentioned above I came
across
> with a line that says that I should back up and
then
> DELETE all multidisk volumes before the upgrade
because
> Win Server 2003 cannot access these volumes.
> I thought DiskPart would take care of this.
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>.
>

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