we are looking forward to upgrade our DELL power edge server to windows 2003 64bit operating system, however now it requires to start from scratch. unfortunately i do not have the driver or start up disks to initiate the installation, can we simply boot from the windows disk and go through the installation process. any assistance will be helpful.

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3 Responses to “Securely Wiping Hard Disk Drives on Dell PowerEdge Servers with BartPE and Kill Disk” oscar Says: December 11th, 2013 at 12:53 PM. Hi my name is Oscar and I currently have this same problem. I recently a dell poweredge 2950 server with the perc 5/i controller. I have a Dell powerEdge 2600, when installing MS Server 2008 I have a Dell powerEdge. I have a Dell powerEdge 2600, when installing MS Server 2008 - afgter entering reg# XXXXX cannot find the SCSI drives to install, during boot they shown - suggestions for drivers? We're evaluating ESXi on a a Dell Poweredge 2900 with a PERC 6/i RAID controller. Hello try to add the driver of your megaraid controller sas in you're iso. With the peTools. When I went to the Dell website and downloaded the Linux megaraid_sas driver for the PERC 6/i, it gave my RHEL and SLES drivers. This document provides important information about Microsoft Windows Server 2016 for the Dell EMC PowerEdge systems. IDRAC, BIOS, system firmware, RAID controller driver versions Table 1. Minimum supported BIOS and iDRAC version on 14th generation of PowerEdge system Platforms Essentials Standard Datacenter Supported iDRAC version Supported. Get drivers and downloads for your Dell PowerEdge 2900. Download and install the latest drivers, firmware and software.

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Installation of Server 2008 on the PowerEdge 2900 proved to be more complicated. On initial install, Windows Server 2008 doesn't recognize hard drives on either the on-board SATA controller or the PERC5/I RAID controller. It should have been possible to install the drivers via F6, but they were not available.

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I am not familiar with Dell at all, but I found Dell Installation and Server Management Disk available to download (and burn of course).

Compatibility: PowerEdge 2900 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64

There is also some instruction here.

Installing Server 2003 x64 on a Poweredge 2950 with Perc 5i / 6i (LSI logic) RAID drivers.

This was a nightmare but i finally figured out how to get windows setup to read my RAID drive (In my case i couldn’t use Dell’s System Build and Update Utility disc because it wants to format the entire RAID disk… i just wanted to repair my install).

The Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 installation disc will not recognize your LSI perc raid card without installing third party drivers. This becomes complicated as there is no floppy drive with the power edge 2950 and just sticking the drivers on a usb stick won’t cut it. Luckily I figured out how to get windows setup to recognize your raid drive.

Basically you have to create a USB floppy drive with your usb stick and place the drivers on it.

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Step by step instructions can be found here

While you SHOULD use the disk Grzegorz Szpetkowski mentions, you CAN slipstream the disk controller drivers into a new 2003 disc that you can then use to install. (I BELIEVE nlite works with x64 versions of Windows, but even if it doesn't there are manual ways to slipstream).

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Here are some specs about the RAID setup: PERC 5/i

-5 total disks, 3 drives in RAID 5, and 2 in RAID 1. I believe the 2 in RAID 1 are the OS boot drives.

-Windows Server 2003

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Additionally, setup can't detect the drives to perform any type of repair, and now one of the disks in RAID 5 is now performing a rebuild, and one of them in RAID 1 is labeled 'Missing', with the other in RAID 1 is now offline. On the front, one of their LEDs (in RAID 1 I believe) is blinking amber and green, which supposedly indicates a 'predicted failure.'

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Any ideas? I don't know if a drive is failing, or if the RAID card has a dead battery, which may have caused one to fail?

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