I go through the upgrade procedure from the disc which seems to run fine. Then it wants to reboot to start the Setup Server 2003 (dos type screen) and I see no activity. No activity on the HDD or CD/DVD. No movement on the DOS screen. Server is a Dell 2900. I can do a fresh install but I will lose all my settings and backup logs. Let me know if there is a way around this. Thanks in advance.
Hi Not sure about this at all, but you can try the following: 1- Before the upgrade and with windows 2003 cd inserted at cd drive, run the following commands: adprep /forestprep adprep /domainprep. 2- Run the upgrade process Regards Gorka Miranda "Mike A" <Mike A@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:43E84516-DFAE-48F1-B3A5-84CAC7BD1E62@microsoft.com... >I go through the upgrade procedure from the disc which seems to run fine. > Then it wants to reboot to start the Setup Server 2003 (dos type screen) > and > I see no activity. No activity on the HDD or CD/DVD. No movement on the > DOS > screen. Server is a Dell 2900. I can do a fresh install but I will lose > all > my settings and backup logs. Let me know if there is a way around this. > > Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the response. I did that already. I believe that it is an issue with the raid controller and windows does not know how to talk to it. I don't even get far enough to f6 to load additional driver. It just hangs. I hope that helps. -- Mike A "Gorka Miranda" wrote: > Hi > > Not sure about this at all, but you can try the following: > > 1- Before the upgrade and with windows 2003 cd inserted at cd drive, run the > following commands: > > adprep /forestprep > adprep /domainprep. > > 2- Run the upgrade process > > Regards > > Gorka Miranda > > "Mike A" <Mike A@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:43E84516-DFAE-48F1-B3A5-84CAC7BD1E62@microsoft.com... > >I go through the upgrade procedure from the disc which seems to run fine. > > Then it wants to reboot to start the Setup Server 2003 (dos type screen) > > and > > I see no activity. No activity on the HDD or CD/DVD. No movement on the > > DOS > > screen. Server is a Dell 2900. I can do a fresh install but I will lose > > all > > my settings and backup logs. Let me know if there is a way around this. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > >
