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Hello all,<br />
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I have a server that has Windows 2003 Server (64 bit) running on it and I would like to have it run 32 bit. The problem is I already have a lot of data and configurations on it that I don't want to mess up by having to reinstall. Can I just take a Windows 2003 server (32 bit) CD, boot off of it, and choose the repair function so that it will reinstall the version of Windows off the CD? If not, does anyone have any ideas how I can easily roll back to 32 bit? Thanks a million!
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Hello all,

I have a server that has Windows 2003 Server (64 bit) running on it and I would like to have it run 32 bit. The problem is I already have a lot of data and configurations on it that I don't want to mess up by having to reinstall. Can I just take a Windows 2003 server (32 bit) CD, boot off of it, and choose the repair function so that it will reinstall the version of Windows off the CD? If not, does anyone have any ideas how I can easily roll back to 32 bit? Thanks a million!

Overwrite 64 bit Windows 2003 Server with 32 bit version?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).