NT4 migration

[Worried]

We are trying to migrate our NT4 sp6a to win 2000 server.
It is on a slow machine (PII 300, 256m ram), and has 1.4
gigs free. It has been in migration mode for 4 days now.

The hard drives do spin, and the cd-rom activates, but
that is maybe every 3-6 hours. We have 310 users.

The server is an HP Netserver with a raid configuration (6
hard drives).

Anyone know how long this should take, or if we are indeed
screwed?

 

[Ray Lava [MSFT]]

Worried,

Your post indicates that you are doing a migration from NT4 to Windows 2000,
but you do not mention if you are using ADMT for the migration or some 3rd
party tool. It sounds like you may actually be upgrading your NT4 domain to
Windows 2000. I am also not sure what you mean by "migration mode". Either
way, something is clearly amiss if it has been four days since you started
the process and it is not finished yet. A domain with 310 users is not very
large and they should not normally take more than 20 minutes to migrate with
ADMT v2.

Please clarify whether you are doing a migration or an upgrade and provide a
little more detail so I can know how best to assist you. Thanks.

Ray Lava
Microsoft Corporation

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[Worried]

That's actually a good question. We hired an outside
source to do this for us, and so far all they did was put
the 2000 server in the CD-rom, and let it do it's thing.
So I assume then we are upgrading our PDC vs. a true
migration. It is still on the Please Wait window as of
today.

We rebooted it just to see what would happen, and 2000
looked to be starting, only to see a "restarting setup"
screen appear. After this goes away, the hard drives have
a lot of activity, then stop again at the Please Wait
screen.

Migration mode is what they called it. It sounds like we
chose wrong when we picked these "experts".

Let me know what else you need, and thank you for replying.