Performance problem w/ Rake on MS SQL 2000 1-GB database

Hello all,
I have a legacy 1Gb MS SQL 2000 database in production. A copy of this
is
my dev db.
rake prepare_test_database on this database takes 20+ minutes.

Can someone PLEASE tell me if there is a solution to improving the
prepare
time for this DB ?

Thank you thank you thank you in advance!