Monday, October 1, 2012
Server 2003 vs 2008 Free Space
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Windows
This turned out to be a partitioning error. I created a new virtual disk with a new partitioning scheme and cloned my data over to the new partitions. That fixed the problem.
Original Post:
Something is very wrong here. I've been trying for about six months to upgrade an old Windows Server 2003 file server to Windows Server 2008. I have been getting a weird error message when it tries to reboot after the initial copying of files from the DVD. The error is:
This generic error obviously doesn't help. When you restart the installation it fails over and over with the same message.Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation.
For kicks and giggles I decided to boot from the DVD directly instead of running setup from within Windows. It said that I couldn't install Windows on my system partition because there wasn't enough free space. What in the world? I have over 90 GB free on the C drive.
Screenshot from within Windows Server 2003:
Screenshot from within Windows Server 2008 setup:
How can this be? What is going on here?
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