Re: Upgrading a Win2K member server to 2K3

Hey Harry,

What type of format is on the Hard Drive? Is it a RAID setup?
Are you up to date on all drivers? Patches? Bios?

Hope this helps,
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"Harry Devine" <hdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have several servers that I am upgrading to Windows 2003. I have already
upgraded 2 of them with no problem. However, the 3rd one, when I tried to
upgrade it today, seemed to go a little flaky. When I put the CD in, I
tell it to do an upgrade, then it does it's initial processing and reboots
the server.

On the first 2 servers, it came back up into Windows and completed the
installation. However, on this 3rd server, it rebooted and came back to
the DOS-based setup program the runs when you press a key when prompted
with "Press any key to boot from the CD...". I didn't press any keys, and
the BIOS of the server isn't setup to boot from the CD drive as the first
boot device. If I go through and tell it to install 2003 on the existing
C: drive, it tells me that there isn't a valid Windows partition there,
and that I have to re-create the partition (which I obviously do not want
to do).

Anybody know what could make the setup program behave this way? What can
I do to get this server upgraded to 2003?

Thanks,
Harry



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