unable to format partion???

[johnkay21]

I have now put a different Hard Drive in the server and the Hard Drive is detected but whenb I try formating the hard drive it says:

Setup was unable to format the partion. The disk may be damaged......etc etc make sure your SCSI devices are properly terminated etc etc

You must select a differewnt partition for Windows.....


WHAT SHALL I DO???? (Tried with 2 different hard disks)

[plexer]

So this is related to your previous post on your dead server?

Please give us a full rundown of the hard ware, disk controllers, amount of memory etc...

Ben

[johnkay21]

The server is a Fujitsu Siemens Primergy Econel 100.
Intel Pentium D

the origional Hard Drive - Samsung HD160JJ (the one that will not boot)

New hard drive(s) Maxtor Diamond Max 10

[plexer]

If you had one that wouldn't boot and now cannot format others what about the disk controller?

Are these scsi disks or ata?

Whichever they are is the controller sepearate or built into the mother board?

Ben

[johnkay21]

they are ata and i think the conroller is built in

[plexer]

Have you run any sort of diagnostics on it?

Ben

[johnkay21]

no the server will not do anything

[badboyvtec]

download and burn ultimate boot cd and boot from that. it has many diagnostic tools on it including hard drive diag programs. www.ultimatebootcd.com

[johnkay21]

why can this server not install a fresh copy of server 2003 though??? It does not identify the disks. It formats them but will not put the OS on them?????

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

[badboyvtec]

I don't know that but I would personally try buying an add on sata card (if its those type of hdd's) and installing that as a first port of call, so you can limit it down to saying either its the hard drives or the motherboard. As a coincidence it may well be the hard drives.

[plexer]

johnkay we are trying to help you but it appears that you are slightly out of your comfort zone.

It sounds as if there is a problem with the built in drive controller.

If it's just the data you want from them bung them in another machine and pull it off that way.

Ben

[johnkay21]

BINGO it's working!!!!!!!!!!! Thank for your help:

badboyvtec & plexer

regards

John

[petectid]

When you run setup it asks for third party disk or array controllers these need to be loaded for the setup programme. Otherwise setup cannot access the disk. Visit Fujitsus site and find out if you need any third party disk controllers. You will probably need a USB floppy drive if there is not a floppy disk drive in the server? To load them for setup, setup only looks to drive A: for these drivers.

[plexer]

Come on then tell us what you did.

Ben

[plexer]

Come on then tell us what you did.

Ben