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Processor | Intel Pentium III Tualatin 1.4ghz (2x) |
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Motherboard | SuperMicro P3TDDE |
Cooling | Antec Solution Plus CPU Cooler, replaced fan with 60mm LED fan (2x) |
Memory | Micron 1GB PC133 ECC Reg DDR Memory, 168-Pin SDRAM (4x) |
Video Card(s) | nVidia GeForce FX5500 PCI Video Graphics Card - 256MB |
Storage | 80gb |
Case | Ultra Products Wizard Mid-Tower ATX Case Black with Blue UV ULT31742 |
Audio Device(s) | Sound Blaster Live! X-GAMER |
Power Supply | 400 watt |
Software | Windows XP Pro |
For about over 2 days straight with barely enough sleep, I am unable to solve this problem when owning my first server tower. Because that the drives were wiped, I've attempted to install Windows Server 2008, but ran into this problem.
I don't understand why 2 of my sata drives are locked. They both are connected to the LSI SAS 5 controller card:
I've used the command prompt to do diskpart, formatted to ntfs for an hour, assigned the drive to C: and after all that, it still says to "ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's bios...." on top of that I went through the LSI configuration and synced both drives and still won't allow me to install windows 2008. I google searched the problem for hours and unable to find a solution to this problem as this is the first time I've been using a server based system. Please if anyone had faced a similar situation, please provide step by step how I can make the primary sata drive connected to SAS 5 controller to be my primary drive for windows installation?
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