The Other Hdd Does Not Appear On My Server

[kudmus 0]

I have a primitive Dell POwerEdge2300 that i got from a friend. I remember when he he gave it to me 5 months ago we ran Windows Server 2003 but when I switched it on yesterday it could not find any boot device. After playing around with the hardrives it finally booted with Win2K which I had not seen when we ran it the first time.The problem is when I am in BIOS I see both drives but when I boot into windows only C:\ appears in Windows Explorer. I can see both drives in the device manager and they are said to be working fine how do I access the other drive which I believe was the one with Win2K3?

[bluedragon 0]

I have a primitive Dell POwerEdge2300 that i got from a friend. I remember when he he gave it to me 5 months ago we ran Windows Server 2003 but when I switched it on yesterday it could not find any boot device. After playing around with the hardrives it finally booted with Win2K which I had not seen when we ran it the first time.The problem is when I am in BIOS I see both drives but when I boot into windows only C:\ appears in Windows Explorer. I can see both drives in the device manager and they are said to be working fine how do I access the other drive which I believe was the one with Win2K3?

Hi .. I couldnt understand your problem completely but I'll try to provide a solution that will work

Right click on My computer and Select Manage ..
Go to Disk Management and See if the drives are listed there ?

If yes then probably they will be inactive/ offline.. just make them active and that should solve the problem

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I hope this helps.

Also , If you want to boot in Win2k3. I believe it will be in the First partition of the second hard-drive. Just change the boot order of the drives in the Bios. Or select the Other Hard-disk from Boot Selection menu if your Bios has one.

I would say. Just check your motherboard's Cell.I Guess it has died out and hence messed up the BIOS settings, bcoz you were saying it was booting up in Windows 2k3 earlier and now its booting win 2000.


btw.. Just a thought .. Were you able to run Win 2k3 properly on this machine .. I mean i think its only 333 MHz and 128 MB of ram ??


pls rep me if this helps ..
Edited September 23, 2008 by bluedragon (see edit history)

[kudmus 0]

Thank for your help but I didn't try it. I had already replaced one of the Hard drives and formatted it when I saw your post. I was surprised when I noticed I had not tryied the first thing I was supposed to try. Sounds so dumb doesn't it?

btw.. Just a thought .. Were you able to run Win 2k3 properly on this machine .. I mean i think its only 333 MHz and 128 MB of ram ??

The rig has 2x350MHz PIIs and 4x256MB memory. Although it wasn't very powerful I just thought it was gonna be more powerful than the ordinary pc that I'm using as a server now. It has AMD Duron 1GHz and 2x512DDR. What do u think?