Re: Unsure of what to do...

No... I don't have any drivers on a floppy. They are all on the Dell
restore CD that came with the system and I have no 3 1/2 drive either. When
you mentioned in your earlier post that " (USB key and/or CD will NOT do!)
for installing drivers I wondered how everything worked when I did the
restore on my system if using the CD drive would not work. I'm a little
slow with this I guess! Could I start the install with the Dell restore CD
(without SP1) that also contains the RAID drivers then finish with the new
media that has SP1?

Thanks
Jeff

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, I assume you would have to have the drivers on floppy, yes. Only the
RAID drivers are an issue - all others you can load once the core OS is
loaded - there's a natural stopping point when Windows is loaded, but none
of the SBS components have been loaded yet. You can pause there and load
the drivers you'll need later, such as network drivers if your NIC needs a
driver, for example. Then you restart the install and finish.

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Charlie.
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"Jeff Teel" <jdteel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for replying Charlie
I thought that might be the case but wasn't sure. This brings up another
question though. With the upgrade of my OS to SP1 (I have squeezed some
SP1 a set of full install media out of Dell) if I use the SP1 media to do
a re-install will those drivers be on the disks or is the media missing
the drivers for RAID ect....? On the new media SBS SP1 disks that they
shipped there is no mention of Dell. They are from Microsoft Licensing.
Am I assuming correctly that if I have to do a complete re-install and
use the SP1 media I will have to get the drivers loaded from a drive
other than the CD?

Thanks
Jeff

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you flattened the machine, there's no drivers on it. You boot from
the CD, and add the drivers. On Dell servers, if SBS is a supported OS,
they are supposed to streamline the drivers onto the SBS CD so that you
don't need a floppy.

An external USB floppy is normally fine, by the way. I keep one here,
sitting in the server room, in a ziplock bag on the back shelf. Just in
case.

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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64

"Jeff Teel" <jdteel@RMoveThis sugardog.com> wrote in message
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Hi Charlie

I have a question that relates to loading RAID drivers that I have been
wondering about. Several months ago I flattened my server and started
over with a clean install. I'll try not to leave out any thing but
it's been a while since I've done this!! Before I did the new install
though I made the C:\ partition larger using the install CD. Would the
drivers for RAID still be on the system from the original install or
are they taken off when the partition was increased? I ask because I
don't have a floppy drive and there would be no other way (except an
external floppy) but to use the CD drive to get that done if I could
not use it. It is a Dell Server that had SBS preinstalled. I can't
remember for sure if I had to do any driver installs before I put the
OS on.

Thanks
Jeff

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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RAID controllers require that drivers be loaded during the initial
installation process. You need the drivers on a floppy (USB key and/or
CD will NOT do!) When the blue installation screen first comes up,
you'll see "Press F6 to load storage drivers" at the bottom of the
screen. Press F6 and then follow the prompts to load your RAID/SATA
drivers.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


tqc4869 wrote:
Okay, I've been able to get the raid to show up on disk management
after
booting up with the old drive.. Should I keep the old drive and
somehow
move the data to the raid partition?












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