upgrade to 2003

January 23, 2008

I need to upgrade Windows 2000 Standard SP4 to Windows 2003 R2 SP2

Enterprise. C: drive contains OS and it is size of 15GB. E: drive (960 GB)

contains data - 15 million tiff images (5kb - 25kb). Is the fact that E:

drive is so big and has high number of small files going to slow down the

upgrade? I have a limited time frame (few hours) for the upgrade and I want

to make sure that the upgrade completes within my time frame. What

potentially might be other factors that may slow down the upgrade process?

Thank you.

January 23, 2008

RE: upgrade to 2003

Hi mtler,

You should have an issue with the E: drive in the upgrade. You may have a

longer-term issue with the 15GB system partition though. You will have to be

very careful to make sure that it does not fill up on you. I usually go with

20GB + swap for a new install.

As always, because this is an in-place upgrade, make sure you have good

backups in place.

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Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

Chicago, IL

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"mtler" wrote:

> I need to upgrade Windows 2000 Standard SP4 to Windows 2003 R2 SP2

> Enterprise. C: drive contains OS and it is size of 15GB. E: drive (960 GB)

> contains data - 15 million tiff images (5kb - 25kb). Is the fact that E:

> drive is so big and has high number of small files going to slow down the

> upgrade? I have a limited time frame (few hours) for the upgrade and I want

> to make sure that the upgrade completes within my time frame. What

> potentially might be other factors that may slow down the upgrade process?

> Thank you.

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