I began building my server over the weekend. I decided that I was just going to plug in the HD’s from the old server and backup the shares before I reinstalled the OS. But I ran into an issue and it wouldn’t work. Apparently the reason the my old server died was because the system HD went bad! The new PC never got very far when trying to boot, it just kept restarting. When I disconnected the HD and made the data drive the primary drive, it actually tried to boot and gave me the message that the disk wasn’t bootable. So it wasn’t even reading the other drive. The BIOS recognized it, but that was it.
This is fine, because I was kind of nervous about using an older drive for the system drive of my new server. The problem is that all of my newer drives are bigger (1TB or bigger) and I don’t want to use that big of a drive for the OS. The old drive one was 250GB, dated 2004 and an IDE drive which I didn’t mind since that freed up a SATA port on the MB for storage drives. I will buy a new 320GB or 500GB drive today and start the install tonight…
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