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by willie williams

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I am trying to do an initial SBS install. It tells me that it cant' find any hard drives. I dont' understand why. I am turning a machine that had 98 on it into this server. So the machine was functioning fine. Thanks

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by timwalsh

In order:
1. Is it telling you it can't find any hard drives, or it can't find enough space?
2. If the computer still has Win98 installed, will it boot properly?
3. If the drives are SCSI, and you are using a non-standard SCSI card, the Installation routine may not automatically recognize the card (which would obviously result in no drives being found).
2. During bootup, check to see if the BIOS is recognizing the installed drives.
3. You may need to enter BIOS setup to ensure the installed drives are recognized correctly.
4. You may want to use a Win98 boot disk, and run fdisk to wipe the drives.
5. You may need to pop open the case and reseat the drive data and power cables.

Hope this helps.

by sbworks

With older comptuers, I've had quite a few BIOS conflicts with W2K Server. If you have a non-SBS copy of W2K, try to install it. If that install still fails, it's not an SBS issue.

by willie williams

It is a newer Athlon 1.2 system. I have loaded 98 on it and it loaded fine. But then I clean it and SBS still wont load. I dont' know what else to try.

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