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July 24th, 2019 17:00
Power edge 2850 AO7 Bios. Windows Server 2008 problem loading
So I have an old power edge 2850 its running and boots how ever I have 4 HDD's installed and it says "Remove disks or other media press any key to restart" on top of that when it was loading it got halfway saying "Loading files" but never went any further. Any advice on what to do from here? Im trying to get it to boot off of an external drive with windows server 2019.
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theflash1932
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July 25th, 2019 07:00
Do you mean the OS would be INSTALLED TO an external drive and that would be your host OS? Yeah, THAT can't be done.
If you mean you are trying to BOOT to a Windows INSTALLER on an external (USB) drive, then yes, that is possible on a 2850. We would need to know how you prepared the installer in this case to see what went wrong.
The 2850 does not support Server 2019. In fact, many people have reported it will not take Server 2016 or even Server 2012 even - as in they can't even get it to install/run for a variety of issues, but I don't have one to test with. Runs 2008 R2 fantastically though.
DELL-Chris H
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July 25th, 2019 07:00
Luke132,
The issue will be that the 2850 doesn't support 2019, the latest supported OS version would be 2008R2. Also the server isn't intended to boot from an external source drive.
Hope this helps.
Luke132
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July 25th, 2019 08:00
Understood Im probably going to scrap it for part's and do something custom with it I have and 4U 2800 power edge that I am going to be doing something to soon so look out for any posts about that and if any one needs scrap parts from the server Im selling the parts cheap so have them pm me on here if they need parts from the power edge 2850. Thanks!
Luke132
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July 25th, 2019 08:00
On top of that thank you for your quick replies everyone in the Dell community I really enjoy. If you know anyone looking for scrap PE 2850 parts send them my way im about to have a bunch.
Luke132
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July 25th, 2019 08:00
No no I was installing windows server 2019 with my external hdd running as a boot partition so i could install the OS on the C drive. And it looks like im better off scrapping it for parts. Thanks!