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Can only boot with UBCD

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by webster.rantsolase

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Good day all.

I have a HP DL380 G1 server, problem is I can't boot it with anything else except the Utlimate Boot CD, I would like to know if there is a way to boot with UBCD then launch a windows installation from there.

I have also tried all the usual channels but nothing helps (Changed cd rom, obtained different copies of win xp and server 2003, tried the HP SmartStart cd [different versions], absolutely nothing works.)

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by older mycroft

Booting from the UBCD does not involve any interaction between the mobo and a HDD but directly installing any OS does.

What result (if any) has the UBCD HDD diagnostics returned?

by webster.rantsolase

I downloaded the MS Windows XP System Setup Disk and incorporated that into UBCD, then I booted with it from within UBCD and now it's busy installing XP currently at the Setup is copying files stage.
I hope this works however it still leaves the nagging question of what caused it?

by webster.rantsolase

This might come as a shock to you but we have about 60 computers and 3 servers, and guess what, only the broken server has a working floppy and I have absolutely now way of getting the downloaded floppy from the other machines to the server, so incorporating the floppy into the UBCD was the only way.

Now I have encountered a different problem, it copies all the files then reboots, there after it runs setup from disc again, but the good news is that now I can boot from various cd's.
It would appear that you were dead on the money bout the HDD.

by older mycroft

...Once I've escaped from the limelight into the comfort of the shadows once again. :D

However, as I previously posted "[b][i]What result (if any) has the UBCD HDD diagnostics returned?[/b][/i]" It would be worthwhile (while you've still got a chance) to use the UBCD to ascertain the state of the HDD.

Eventually the HDD might conk out completely and you'll never know what the problem was. To prevent a lifetime of sleepless nights, wondering, wondering, wondering - I'd run a diagnostic.

But my money's on a HDD rapidly ascending into [b]Silicon Heaven[/b].

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