will W2K3 accept my W2K hard drive?
EE
I have an iSCSI volume connected to a Windows 2000 server. I plan to shut it down and connect a Windows 2003 server to that same volume. This disk has 1 million very important files. My concern is that Windows 2003 may cough upon seeing the drive in some way and I just want to be prepared. I know I can upgrade Windows 2000 to 2003 and the volume will be fine. But is there a disk conversion process that I miss by doing my migration this way? I can't do it any other way. This is what I need to do if it is safe.
I have an iSCSI volume connected to a Windows 2000 server. I plan to shut it down and connect a Windows 2003 server to that same volume. This disk has 1 million very important files. My concern is that Windows 2003 may cough upon seeing the drive in some way and I just want to be prepared. I know I can upgrade Windows 2000 to 2003 and the volume will be fine. But is there a disk conversion process that I miss by doing my migration this way? I can't do it any other way. This is what I need to do if it is safe.
Timothy McCartney
Do you have access to additional drives? I recommend creating a clone of said important disk, then proceeding with the upgrade. This way you'll be safe in any event.
W2K3 will see and communicate with the iSCSI drive just fine, however the point about backups is extremely important. If the files are critical you should have a backup even if you're not doing a potentially risky operation. Once you have a backup, go ahead and do the connection swap as planned.
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mrolfs
thanks for the input. i have to ask - have you done this? are you giving me first hand experience or an educated guess? my educated guess is that it will work too, but really hoping for someone who has done something similar.
thanks for the input. i have to ask - have you done this? are you giving me first hand experience or an educated guess? my educated guess is that it will work too, but really hoping for someone who has done something similar.
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BTW if you're not in a big hurry I could likely replicate this in-house and let you know, but it'll take a day or 2 to set it all up.
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it is fanstastic of you to offer to replicate this but it is my responsiblity to ensure this is good so i will do it. i totally agree that a physical disk will be no different and my plan is to use an external usb disk and try the swap. thank yo for the technet article.