This is partly an NTFS question, but I thought someone here may have done this. I need to upgrade from 2003 to 2008. Unfortunately, I can't do an in place upgrade because the 2003 vm is 32 bit and I'm moving to 64 bit, so I have to use MS migration tools. My VM has a C drive and a D drive, and D has all the data. My question is, can I migrate my C drive only and then attach the new 2008 vm to the existing disk I'm using for the D drive? Or is there some compatibility issue between 2003 and 2008 for NTFS?
Thanks.
Tim
No problem. NTFS in 2008 is just a minor release and in any case it can read well old 2003 NTFS.
Andre
No problem. NTFS in 2008 is just a minor release and in any case it can read well old 2003 NTFS.
Andre
you can mix and match, as long as the disk is not dynamic or software raid you can cross attach as the NTFS are all compatible ..
Thanks to both of you. I thought as much, but I do loves me some verification.
Tim
thanks for the points. you might want to enable snapshot just in case the upgrade does not work well you can roll back very fast ..
Yup, snapshots before major change is SOP here, although if the MS migration works like Novell migration, the source server isn't really affected anyway. I'm getting my migration docs together now.