Re: During reinstallation I'm told that setup can't find the hard drive/mass storage device - whY?
- From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:21:58 -0700
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.
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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
"Mike Webb" <mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:esmFOsm5GHA.3920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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?
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Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a 501 (c)(3) non-profit org.
Wood River, NE
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