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Upgrading Hard Drives on Dell Poweredge T100
I was running out of space on my Poweredge T110 RAID 1 so I decided to upgrade them to 1TB hard drives. I completed a full backup of the system and I powered down, installed new hard drives and deleted the existing array, created a new array and synchronized. It completed over night. Now, both hard drives show up as in the RAID but when I try to boot and restore my backup, neither hard drive shows up even though they do in OpenManage. Is there something I'm missing? Under Open Manage, I show the Virtual Drive as well as the two 1TB hard drives. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
theflash1932
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June 28th, 2013 13:00
This is the driver you should be using, keeping in mind that it must first be run to extract the files (the EXE itself is not usable during the process):
ftp.dell.com/.../DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A05_R294488.exe
If you have problems with it, you might try an older version of the driver (Hard Drive version):
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/Product/poweredge-t110?driverId=7VR66&fileId=3126067438&osCode=WS8R2
crozzman
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June 28th, 2013 07:00
So, once I install the driver for the RAID controller I should be able proceed you think? I appreciate your time. Thanks.
DELL-Geoff P
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June 28th, 2013 07:00
The Acronis disk probably doesn't have the controller drivers so you can see the array. You will need these before it will restore your data.
Regards,
DELL-Geoff P
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June 28th, 2013 07:00
In OpenManage, does it show 2 separate 1TB drives? Does it give you the option to create an array with these 2 drives?
Regards,
crozzman
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June 28th, 2013 07:00
Yes. It shows the two drives and I did create the array. I then had it synchronize. After the sync, I reboot to my acronis disk to restore my backup and the drives do jot show to restore to
crozzman
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June 28th, 2013 12:00
Are you talking about the RAID Controller? I have installed that and it still doesn't recognize. Please help. Thanks
theflash1932
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June 28th, 2013 12:00
What OS are we talking about restoring here?
crozzman
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June 28th, 2013 12:00
Perc s100
theflash1932
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June 28th, 2013 12:00
Which RAID controller do you have?
crozzman
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June 28th, 2013 13:00
Server 2008 R2 64-bit
crozzman
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June 29th, 2013 16:00
That was it. I had to reinstall Windows Server 2008 and then i was able to restore my backup over that. Thanks so much for the help!