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December 21st, 2022 08:00
Poweredge R420 not booting from SATA HDD in AHCI mode
So, i recently bought a Dell PowerEdge R420. I tried putting in my Kingston A400 SSD With Windows Server 2012 installation, and my old Western Digital SATA HDD. But, when i put it in, and tried booting for the first time, it does not boot from any drive. I tried to click everything in BIOS, but when i tried switching AHCI to RAID, it wanted to format all my drives, and i don't wanna do that, and i don't wanna even use RAID. But both drives are detected by BIOS, they both show up in physical disk properties. But then this happened. I put in a usb flash drive with a windows 7 installation media, and it booted just fine, and i didn't even have to set anything in bios. But there were no disks detected in the windows format gui. So what happened?
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EmFa
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December 22nd, 2022 08:00
I did not format the ssd, but
IT SUDDENLY BOOTED FROM THE SSD
AND ALL THE DRIVES ARE NOW DETECTED
i don't know what happened, i have not changed any settings since i replied, but i replugged in the drives and it booted from the ssd to windows server 2012
DELL-Chris H
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December 21st, 2022 12:00
ErnFa,
Would you confirm how the drives are attached to the server, direct to motherboard, backplane, etc?
Also, do you have the specific part number for the drives?
Is there a raid controller installed on the server?
Let me know.
EmFa
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December 22nd, 2022 05:00
I have also tried inicializing the disk using ctrl+r, but it is still the same problem
https://imgur.com/a/07B9K2A
EDIT: The 100gb disk on the pictures is a test drive, but all other drives are the same
EmFa
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December 22nd, 2022 05:00
The drives are connected to the server normally using the sas port on the front of the server. Yes, there is a raid controller installed, but i have raid turned off, because i use ahci
DELL-Chris H
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December 22nd, 2022 06:00
EmFa,
So you are sliding the drive into the front of the server?
When you access the controller BIOS (Ctrl-r on startup) if you can see the drives listed in there, then you are still on the raid controller.
Whats the OS installed on the drive? I ask because if it isn't an enterprise level OS, then the controllers driver won't be present.
Lastly, when you created the Raid 0, did you mark it to Initialize the drive?
The reason I ask is if you did then it likely deleted the data on the drive.
Let me know.
EmFa
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December 22nd, 2022 06:00
"Whats the OS installed on the drive?"
On this test drive was ubuntu 22.04, but on the previous ssd was windows server 2012
"Lastly, when you created the Raid 0, did you mark it to Initialize the drive?"
Yes, i initialized the disk. But it does not matter if it is formatted or not, the disk does not show up in windows server 2022 usb installation media, and doesn't even show up in f11 boot selector
DELL-Chris H
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December 22nd, 2022 07:00
Try updating the OS driver pack for the Lifecycle Controller (LCC), which is F10 on startup, then try to install the OS via the LCC.
You can find the OS driver pack here.
Let me know how it goes.
EmFa
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December 22nd, 2022 07:00
Is there any other way to boot from the ssd? I don't wanna reinstall the operating system, i have lots of data on the ssd
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December 22nd, 2022 07:00
If you initialized that SSD after creating the raid 0, then the data on the drive is gone. Which is why I am not certain how you would boot from that without installing the OS.