Sounds like you need to load some mass storage controller drivers... You can do that from a USB key.
Cheers Ken From: Michael A. Berryman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 9 June 2008 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Server 2008 Install issue Hi folks, I'm trying to install Windows Server 2008 on a Dell 600SC that was running Windows 2003 Server. I loaded the DVD, put in the product Key and told it to delete the partition on the disk because I wanted to start clean and not upgrade. Anyway, it wiped off the old partition and allowed me to format the drive (which only took about 1 minutes, 80 GB drive, so I am skeptical it really formatted it), but when I select that drive to install on (creating a new partition is not one of the options, it is greyed out, the only option to select when I highlight the drive is next) it starts to copy files and give me a "Windows could not prepare the partition selected for installation" error message and can't go forward. Anyone seen this? Do I need to create and format the partition another way? Any advice? Thanks, Mike ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
