in-place upgrade windows 2003 32 bit

[kamran7446]

Hi all,

I am having trouble doing an in-place upgrade of a VM windows 2003 32 bit to Windows 2008 32 bit. I need to do this as applications running on the existing OS not compatible with 64 bit OS. All going well until the last step "Completing upgrade" until 52% then start rebooting and never comes up. If I go "Safe Mode" it stops on Windows\system32\drivers\CRCDISK.SYS  while trying to load the drivers. I have tried loads of options none of them worked. I would appreciate any help.

Kamran7446

[Sateesh_vCloud]

What is the controller configured for Windows 2003 VM?

[kamran7446 · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

The controller is LSI Parallel. I managed to fix the issue through a bit of manipulating the OS. I had to do some registry changes (system32\config\...) and rebooting few times, which upgraded kind of successfully. Then I had to upgrade the Windows 2008 to windows 2008!! again one more time to get things working. I know it sounded strange. At the moment it is working and as I mentioned the current controller is LSI Parallel. Thanks for your reply.

Kamran7446

[Sateesh_vCloud]

Good to know that issue got fixed but take a look at below link:

Which vSCSI controller should I choose for performance? | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

[Jaynatic]

Hello Sateesh,

I am experiencing the same issue like Kamran7446.

I have a Windows 2003 R2 x86 (VM) and want to upgrade it to Windows 2008 R2 x86.

It stops at CRCDISK.SYS when booting to Safe Mode.

I have performed the steps from your blog post, but when I select the 'LSI Logic SAS' for the boot partition it tells me: No operating system found.

Is there an additional step I need to do?

@ Kamran7446, how did you fix your problem? Maybe it will also work in my case.

(I took a VM snapshot, so everything is currently back to Windows 2003 R2 x86, running with the LSI Logic Parallel)

Thanks for any feedback,

Johannes

[Jaynatic]

Hello,

I forget to change the boot partition in BIOS, but the problem still exists.

It stops at CRCDISK.SYS.

Any ideas? I also tried a repair installation but it hangs at "searching for problems".

The server is a P2V, ex, HP machine, I cleaned the system32-drivers directory but no luck.

Thank you for any help.

Jaynatic

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[henrikp80]

Hi

To go around this problem boot to Windows 2008 cd.

Choose repair and later delete lsicsb6.sys from %systemroot%\system32\drivers

Good luck

[peterhigbee]

Henrikp80's solution worked for me!

"To go around this problem boot to Windows 2008 cd.

Choose repair and later delete lsicsb6.sys from %systemroot%\system32\drivers"

[sthorpe76]

+1 for Henrikp80's solution, been stuck on this for most of the day

"To go around this problem boot to Windows 2008 cd.

Choose repair and later delete lsicsb6.sys from %systemroot%\system32\drivers"

[madgonc]

WORks!

I Upgrade from windows 2003 32bit to windows 2008 32bit and need change Disk controller to VMWARE Paravirtual, and them change OS vm type to windows 2008 (32bit).

reboot vm, upgrade ends and now i'm happy!