Re: During reinstallation I'm told that setup can't find the hard drive/mass storage device - whY?
- From: "Steve" <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:41:37 -0700
As Charlie suggests we'd need to know the specific Adaptec SCSI RAID card
you're using, but I do know that Windows 2003 has native support for the
older 2100S series. Also is booting from the RAID controller enabled in your
BIOS? If not I don't think the Windows install routine will see it either.
"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You have two choices when running an installation. If you run the
installation from within an existing Windows installation, as an in place
upgrade, you can generally avoid having to have a floppy disk with the
necessary drivers on it. However, it what you're trying to do is do a
fresh install, you need to either use a type of disk controller that has
built in drivers in Server 2003, or you need to provide the drivers on a
floppy drive. When you first boot off the CD to install SBS you'll see
"Press F6 to specify additional mass storage, etc." at the bottom of the
screen. Press F6 and you'll eventually get prompted to provide the floppy.
At this point you have to provide the _correct_ drivers for your disk
controller. If you have multiple controllers, the critical one is the one
that has your boot drive attached to it.
Without more details as to your specific hardware and what drives are
attached to which controllers, I can't be more specific.
--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
"Mike Webb" <mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Running SBS 2003 Premium.
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For necessary reasons, I need to reinstall SBS. My problem is right from
the get-go after setup gets down loading files and drivers to start, it
tells me it can't detect a hard-drive/mass storage device. That puzzled
me as it shows up fine during boot-up. After cycling through a reboot a
few times, it hit me that I have a SCSI RAID device. So I dug out the
3.25 in floppy (ADAPTEC Family Manager Set v4.0a Utility Disk) and
plopped it in the drive and went to the setup. I selected the SCSI drive
from the list presented, and then setup told me that the file already in
windows was newer than what was on the diskette, and asked me whether to
replace or keep the file. I chose to keep the newest file. It then went
to the next window to tell me it still couldn't find the hard-drive/mass
storage device.
Very frustrating!
Can someone please tell me how to convince setup that there IS a
hard-drive/mass storage device?
--
Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a 501 (c)(3) non-profit org.
Wood River, NE
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