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March 19th, 2013 14:00
Perc3/Di driver for boot floppy on Poweredge 2500 Win 2000 server
Hi everyone,
I have a Poweredge 2500 with a SCSI Raid array, running Windows 2000 Server. It will neither boot from HDD nor CD ROM. I have made a boot floppy on which I have included the Perc2 Perc2/si Perc3/si and Perc3/di drivers (in one file) as ntbootdd.sys. This tries to boot but unfortunately does not recognize the System Drive. I am guessing that this is a driver issue as previous attempts to use setup to access the repair console did locate the installation, however the password wasn't accepted.
Can anyone suggest how I can include just the Perc3/di driver on the floppy or another workround?
Thanks in anticipation of your kind assistance.
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DELL-Chris H
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March 20th, 2013 06:00
Filistine,
This is the driver that should work for you - www.dell.com/.../poweredge-2500 (hard drive version)
Download and run that file to extract the files. Copy those files to a newly formatted floppy.
When you say that you tried booting to the CD-ROm, was that using the 2k media?
Filistine
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March 20th, 2013 08:00
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply, I'll give it a try and see how it goes.
I tried to boot from CD but even though the settings were correct in the BIOS it wouldn't work. I think I saw somewhere that it might be because it's a combi drive (CDROM and Floppy).
Another hurdle I came up against was that the installation appears to have been from an image, and the CDROM media wasn't recognised as it was for SBS 2000 integrated with 2k Server so I couldn't do either a repair or repair install, even though I managed to use floppies to boot into setup.
I'm working on it at the moment, I've managed to get hold of a copy of ERD Commander 2000, and I'll let you know how it goes.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Glyn aka Filistine
Filistine
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March 20th, 2013 13:00
Hi again Chris
Used ERD Commander 2000 to boot from floppy and run chkdsk on the system partition, also made sure the password was set correctly. Used the driver that you kindly found. Re-booted straight into Windows 2000 Server with no problems. will run through event logs as soon as I can to check for any errors etc.
Thank you once again.
Best regards
Glyn