There is nothing there because Dell probably doesn't support Windows 2008 on SC600. But, I'd still say that my suspicion is that you need to load mass storage controller drivers. Load the Windows Server 2003 ones.
The partitioning goes fast because the GUI doesn't zero-out all the clusters. It just deletes the partition information in the partition table and probably the MFT as well. You can do a Shift+F10 to get a command prompt and use diskpart.exe (IIRC) to do a full format Cheers Ken From: Michael A. Berryman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 3:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Server 2008 Install issue It looks like the only thing on Dell's site for the 600SC is for Server 2003. Perhaps you "can't" put Server 2008 on the SC600. I wonder if I reinstalled Server 2003 and upgraded it it would install. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Does the 600SC have the right hard disk controller drivers available? I recently tried loading 2008 on an SC1420 and 2008 doesn't natively support the CERC SATA RAID controller. I checked Dell's site but only saw a driver for 2003. Matt From: Michael A. Berryman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 4:48 PM 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> ~
