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From: chaswood on 4 Jan 2009 20:02 I am trying to complete the migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 running on Hyper-V. When running the "Migrate to Windows SBS 2008" wizard, an error pops up "Move Exchange Server Data" "A drive cannot be found" "Either there are no NTFS drives available, or the available drives do not have enough capacity for the data" The C: drive is 199 GB with 161 GB available. I am past my 21 day window and my SBS 2003 keeps shutting down on me, please help! -- IT Consultant Heartland Computer
From: AF on 5 Jan 2009 00:06 On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:02:00 -0800, chaswood <chaswood(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I am trying to complete the migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 running on >Hyper-V. When running the "Migrate to Windows SBS 2008" wizard, an error >pops up "Move Exchange Server Data" "A drive cannot be found" "Either there >are no NTFS drives available, or the available drives do not have enough >capacity for the data" > >The C: drive is 199 GB with 161 GB available. > >I am past my 21 day window and my SBS 2003 keeps shutting down on me, please >help! Was the original SBS 2003 running on Hyper-V or a physical machine? -- AF
From: "Robbin Meng [MSFT]" on 5 Jan 2009 06:45 Hello, Thanks for your post. Have you tried to skip the Change drive option as there is no need for the same if you have only one drive on the server? Please check and select the default options to see if you can continue with migration process. Skip option should be available(Default). After Skipping it should proceeds with Migration. Best regards, Robbin Meng(MSFT) Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
From: Les Connor on 5 Jan 2009 09:23 If the exchange data is already migrated from the source to the destination server, and you have only the c: drive in the destination server, then there's nowhere to "move" the exchange data to. This step is for moving the data off your c: drive to another drive - it seems you only have one drive so there's nothing to do. -- Les Connor [SBS-MVP] ____________________________ "chaswood" <chaswood(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:77FF9768-83D5-43DB-90B2-46C05FDCEA0C(a)microsoft.com... >I am trying to complete the migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 running on > Hyper-V. When running the "Migrate to Windows SBS 2008" wizard, an error > pops up "Move Exchange Server Data" "A drive cannot be found" "Either > there > are no NTFS drives available, or the available drives do not have enough > capacity for the data" > > The C: drive is 199 GB with 161 GB available. > > I am past my 21 day window and my SBS 2003 keeps shutting down on me, > please > help! > -- > IT Consultant > Heartland Computer
From: Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP] on 5 Jan 2009 09:41
Assuming that the others have identified the "problem", you might consider rethinking your space allocation. Can't tell without knowing more about your configuration and needs, but 200 GB seems large for a system partition, even in SBS 08. But more than that, it is a better idea to initially install SBS on a subsection of the drives, say 80 GB, and leave the rest unpartitoned until SBS is installed, then create a data partition and use the SBS wizards to move your data to the data partition (so). -- Larry Please post the resolution to your issue so that others may benefit. "Les Connor" <les.connor(a)DEL.cfive.ca> wrote in message news:udtS0E0bJHA.2112(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > If the exchange data is already migrated from the source to the > destination server, and you have only the c: drive in the destination > server, then there's nowhere to "move" the exchange data to. This step is > for moving the data off your c: drive to another drive - it seems you only > have one drive so there's nothing to do. > > -- > Les Connor [SBS-MVP] > > > ____________________________ > "chaswood" <chaswood(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:77FF9768-83D5-43DB-90B2-46C05FDCEA0C(a)microsoft.com... >>I am trying to complete the migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 running on >> Hyper-V. When running the "Migrate to Windows SBS 2008" wizard, an error >> pops up "Move Exchange Server Data" "A drive cannot be found" "Either >> there >> are no NTFS drives available, or the available drives do not have enough >> capacity for the data" >> >> The C: drive is 199 GB with 161 GB available. >> >> I am past my 21 day window and my SBS 2003 keeps shutting down on me, >> please >> help! >> -- >> IT Consultant >> Heartland Computer > |