• Windows XP on PowerEdge 2650 No Hard drive Detected
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Ok well basically, I have a Poweredge 2650 and Have virtualized it useing vmware ESXI. So when i connect a windows xp pro .iso on my computer to it, the installer launches and loads and when it says f3 to install/continue, i click F3 and it immediately says It cannot detect and hard drives and to press F3 to quit. I have a hard drive that works since any other OS's will notice it during install. What do I do???
You need to make sure you set the controller type for the virtual machine in VMware to IDE, not SATA or SCSI.
[QUOTE=UberMensch;22422634]You need to make sure you set the controller type for the virtual machine in VMware to IDE, not SATA or SCSI.[/QUOTE] Well the drive is SCSI so wouldnt I set it to that??? and where would I do that? on the server itself or in the program: Vmware Infrastructure Client?
In whatever you use to manage the ESXi box. Remember it's virtualised, so even though your 2650 has SCSI drives, Windows XP doesn't come with those drivers. The easiest thing to do is to just use virtual IDE drives with your virtual machines.
Ok ill try that. Mind if i add you on steam so you can guide me through it? would be a great help. [editline]08:22PM[/editline] Ok well VMware infrastructure does not have anything that will allow me to make a virtual IDE drive. There is a drop down menu for the type but the only type there is SCSI. [editline]08:33PM[/editline] OK I GOT IT! I searched the internet and, on the VMware website, I found an article contianing drivers that it said were for windows xp and windows server 2003 to detect SCSI driver and now my windows install is setting up windows as we speak. Thanks!
Glad you got it sorted :P When creating a virtual HDD, do you not have this option? [img]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/dcba00vmwareide.png[/img]
Yeah, unless you have a driver, the SATA/SCSI operation has to be set to ATA/IDE. This applies for real computers too, not just virtual ones. Edit: Unless you have vista or 7. Those come with generic SATA RAID/SCSI/AHCI drivers.
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