To truly be able to help I would need to know the raid controller, as well as the raid configuration. When the system is booted do you see a prompt for the PowerEdge Expandable Raid Controller (PERC)? It will be CTRL + C or R, depending on controller installed.
Look in that and let us know the controller and the raid that is configured.
From there you would need the driver file for that controller to continue on with the install.
Let me know the controller and we can go from there.
The S100 supports Windows 2003 and 2008, now with Windows 7 the issue is going to be loading the driver for the raid controller. Windows 2008 and 7 are based on the same platform so that is likely to be the best bet. Unfortunately Windows 7 isn't supported by Dell for installation on the server. That doesn't mean it won't work, just that we don't test or support it. What you are going to need to install it would be the S100's server 2008 driver. We don't have the driver itself, as it is native to the Windows 2008 media.
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Athukoralakasun,
To truly be able to help I would need to know the raid controller, as well as the raid configuration. When the system is booted do you see a prompt for the PowerEdge Expandable Raid Controller (PERC)? It will be CTRL + C or R, depending on controller installed.
Look in that and let us know the controller and the raid that is configured.
From there you would need the driver file for that controller to continue on with the install.
Let me know the controller and we can go from there.
athukoralakasun
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April 22nd, 2014 21:00
Thanks for getting back to me..
It has a S100 raid card. So is there anything that i can do to install Win 7?
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April 23rd, 2014 10:00
The S100 supports Windows 2003 and 2008, now with Windows 7 the issue is going to be loading the driver for the raid controller. Windows 2008 and 7 are based on the same platform so that is likely to be the best bet. Unfortunately Windows 7 isn't supported by Dell for installation on the server. That doesn't mean it won't work, just that we don't test or support it. What you are going to need to install it would be the S100's server 2008 driver. We don't have the driver itself, as it is native to the Windows 2008 media.
athukoralakasun
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April 23rd, 2014 22:00
Hi
Thanks again for your reply....
If i buy a SAS 6 IR Controller, will i be able to install Win 7? If so, can i simply remove the S100 controller and plug SAS 6 IR one??
thanks.