Re: Trial Version Expiry - Unable to detect Hard disk

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:08:39 +0200

Rao

What hard disk controller are you using?

Funny that you can boot from a floppy with FDISK.EXE, but Win2000 Setup
cannot read from the floppy.

Any possibility that you could have a hardware problem, for instance with a
cable to a hard disk?

Best regards

Bjorn

-- 
Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)
"Rao" <chtvrao@valona.com> wrote:
>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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