Re: Reinstall everything

Since this was an upgrade from 4.5 to 2000 and now to 2003 you may be better
off with a clean start. Yikes 4 GB is definitely tiny for 2003! You might
want to consider a swing migration so that you won't have to touch
workstations when you're done: www.sbsmigration.com

"JP" <JP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9B66E643-09CB-4EDF-BDAA-FC597E6AA1F7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good morning,

I am having problems with my SBS2003 upgrade from sbs2000. The main
portions are working so we are not dead in the water here. I have tried
various fixes and reinstalls for the problems but I think it is better to
start from scratch. The main problem is that I hired someone to build
this
server a few years ago and do the upgrade from sbs4.5 to sbs2000. I was
too
busy to do it myself and now I regret it. The problem was is that they
set
up a tiny system partition of 4GB. I have had to move my exchange
database
and anythign else sbs allows me to move on another drive. I usually only
have about 200mb free and I have nothing left to uninstall or delete. So
when I do reinstalls or window updates, I have to magically find space to
get
through it. I wisht to start over and reformat the drive with one 36 GB
partition and add another set of drives dedicated for just storage as it
should be.

So I am planning on doing a full backup to tape as always, copy criticall
data to a NAS device just incase.

I have backed up my licenses to floppy and NAS

I will add the new mirrored drives to the system.

I will reformat my old drives to create one partition (except for the
little
bit compaq has to take for there bios utilities etc..)

I will install SBS 2003 on my lovely clean drive. I hope I only have to
briefly provide my SBS2000 disk to prove the upgrade.

I will then do a partial migration following the SBS2003 white paper on
migratinfg from sbs2000. I plan to only migrate my user accounts and
exchange database. The rest I prefer to rebuild from scratch.

Finally my question. Is this a bad idea? Have I missed anything
important
that will make me regret this decission.
--
Many thanks,

JP


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