Hi - just an update. It turns out it was the driver. Perhaps the two drivers I downloaded and tried were incorrectly labelled. Anyway...the 3rd one I tried allowed the OS to see the logical driver (the array) and job done....just some AD issues to clear up now ;)
It's not a bad Windows CD...i've tried 2003 and 2000 CD's all to no avail. I use smartstart to prep the system and have now tried Windows 2000...it doesn't hang now it simply says "no hard drives can be found...installation cannot continue"
I have installed the correct drivers (Megaraid 4i...
Me again...that didn't work...it's just hanging at the "Setup is starting Windows" screen now.
Any ideas? I've read that some servers require a certain OS to be selected in the SmartStart setup....but Other was the best choice according to the other posts I've read.
Confused!!! - Help please
That doesnt seem to be the case. I have used SmartStart 5.5 in order to erase and then manually configure (using Other OS)
Testing with Win2k3 install now..fingers crossed.
Guys,
Please help!
I have a Compaq ML330 G2 server which, has a RAID 0 IDE array. The array is active and initialised. When I boot from Win 2003 cd it installs but after first reboot ("Your machine will be rebooted in 15 seconds...") the server just hangs at booting from the freshly...
Well.....the thing is....its only just starting.....its an old version i think.... version 7.3
We have changed nothing...and it works but the second time around it doesnt seem to want to know
Cheers
Wiggz
Hi,
even though I had the IBM engineer out to fit a new drive, and the drive was cleaned also, after I have finally completed one cycle of tapes, when I go to put the first tape i used in, to start another cycle at any given time, it tells me the media is 'Uncognisable' and to 'Remove media and...
Hi all,
I keep getting this Media is not Recognisable error whenit comes to backups. I have tried new tapes, and nothing seems to work. We do a daily backup and use the same method we always have...we have been unable to do a backup by this method for around 1 month now. Althought for some...
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