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 (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:43E84516-DFAE-48F1-B3A5-(E-Mail Removed)...
>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 (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:43E84516-DFAE-48F1-B3A5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >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.
>
>
>