Windows 2008 Installation Error

[shak350z]

I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 and I had Linux OS on it and now i want to install Windows 2008. When I install the OS it takes me to the option upgrade or change the current system. Upgrade is disable which is i understand, and when I click the Change it takes me to the driver selection and i cant see my hard drive C or any drive to select as the installtion disk. It says"Load Driver" and "No device drivers found, Make sure that the installtion media contains the correct drivers.

How can i solve this problem?

Thanks

 

[shak350z]

Actually the platform it originally has is VMware ESXi

 

[shak350z]

Wow guys! no one has any idea about this?

 

[atlasiii]

I don't know if I am the one who can help with this one but here is a little something. You may need to load the driver(s) for the hard drive controller first. What type of hardware is installed on the PC? If you have some of the specialized controllers (e.g. PERC) the OS must have the driver to use the controller and hard drive(s). Of course this assumes that you can see the hard drive(s) within the BIOS or during initialization of the system.

 

[mmthomas]

What Atlas said. There is a point as the Windows installer loads where it says something like press F6 to install extra drivers from disk. This is where you would insert your controller drivers.

 

[mevansirl]

Hi,

If you are using ESXi and booting from a non local disk, you must first pre-load the additional drivers as per ESXi to allow the Windows 2008 host to see the disk to which it is installing.

Also a point to note, if you are using thin provisioning on the ESX you must configure the initial size of the thin device to the minimum hard drive spec of the release of Windows server that you are installing.

Hope this helps
M