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April 18th, 2013 21:00
Need to Make WinPE boot disk that can SEE R620 Drives (running off H710 PERC controller)
Hello All,
In the past I would make a re-deployable image of the R710 servers by loading the OS, installing all the updates, then depersonalizing (sysprep, set to oobe) and making a ghost image.
I just got an R620 and wanted to do the same. I loaded it up with Win2008R2 Standard SP1, loaded all the updates, and depersonalized it. When I run ghost from my WinPE disk and try to image it it doesn't see my RAID1 volume I set up and installed the OS on :(.
I am using Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5.1 and using it's wizard to create the bootable WinPE disk. I added the H710 driver for win2008R2 to the winPE installation but still it fails to see the hard drive.
Can someone assist me in how to make a WinPE boot disk that will see my raid volume on the R620 with H710 PERC controller?
Thanks!
nadogmoney
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April 22nd, 2013 11:00
- Is WinPE version 3.X (2008R2/Win7 version)?
- Make sure you have the right controller driver by comparing the controller Device ID (ven_1000&DEV_X) and the Device IDs in the driver .inf file.
muskgrave
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April 22nd, 2013 12:00
I tried both 3.x and I believe 2.x (using the boot wizard with symantec backup suite 2.5). Both of them I fed the H710 driver but I didn't check the deviceID... 2.x boots into winPE but when I launch ghost it doesn't see the hard drive. WinPE 3.x fails to boot at all with an error.
nadogmoney
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April 22nd, 2013 13:00
Check the device IDs. Dell has a lot of different controllers with similar names and different device IDs.
You will need to validate Vendor (VEN), Device (DEV) and Subsys (SUBSYS) in the Device ID. Most of the time you only need to validate VEN and DEV but the Dell disk controllers use Subsys for substantial card identification.
You can run this in the full OS via powershell to get the H710 device ID:
gwmi -query "SELECT DeviceID from win32_PNPSignedDriver WHERE deviceid like '%VEN_1000%'"
emaildan
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September 13th, 2013 00:00
Did this ever get resolved? I am encountering the same issue currently.
Thx