Re: Trial Version Expiry - Unable to detect Hard disk

From: Rao (chtvrao_at_valona.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:05:04 -0700

Bjorn,
Even under new installation from CD, it is not recognising
the hard disk. It simply says no hard disk found
(something like that).

Unfortunately, my floppy drive also not working. I even
tried by replacing with a new floppy drive but it is still
not reading. Everytime it says, do you want to format the
floppy.

Any other clues?

Rao

>-----Original Message-----
>Rao
>
>You might need DOS drivers for your hard disk controller
in order for FDISK
>to work.
>
>If you boot from your Win2003 CD and start a new
installation, is your hard
>disk recognized? If not, you would need a floppy with the
correct hard disk
>controller driver, and press F6 right after you boot from
your CD.
>
>You can start a new Win2003 installation, and when asked
where to install
>Win2003 just delete all partitions and then end the setup
program to get a
>free unformatted hard disk.
>
>Best regards
>
>Bjorn
>--
>Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
>Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)
>
>"Rao" <chtvrao@valona.com> wrote:
>
>>I installed the time limited version of Windows Server
>>some time in 2003. A few days back when I booted the
>>system, I was prompted a message that the time expired
and
>>the system will reboot. However, after the reboot, the
>>sytem did not come up.
>>
>>I tried to delete the volumes on the hard disk using
Fdisk
>>but the utility says no hard disk is present in the
>>system. In other words, the system is not detecting the
>>hard disk on which the Windows 2003 RC was running.
>>
>>Any suggestions to recognise and initiate the hard disk?
>>
>>Rao
>
>.
>

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