Obviously, I had done something wrong.Īfter reading the USB utility’s readme file, I found I had missed some very important details. I tried to view the contents of the flash drive on a Windows XP computer, but I was informed the flash drive was not formatted. It took about three seconds to run, and I went back to my server and ran the Windows 2003 setup again – and once again the installer did not recognize my flash drive. I went and found a different drive that I didn’t care if it’s contents were deleted, and ran the program. I downloaded the USB utility, and when I executed it I was informed this program would format my flash drive, which would obviously delete everything I had saved to it. I did find a link to the Dell USB Key F6 Driver Utility, which allows you to copy mass storage drivers to a USB flash drive and have them recognized by Windows during an installation. I searched for a solution, and of course I didn’t find one. Next I tried copying the drivers to my USB flash drive, which I tried in the ports on both the front and the back of the server, and the installation program failed to see that drive as well. I rebooted the server with the drive into plugged into a USB port on the back of the server, but had the same result. I added the 64-bit RAID controller drivers to my floppy disk, but when I pressed F6 – S to specify new drivers, Windows did not detect the presence of my USB floppy drive, which I had plugged into the USB ports on the front of the server. I had to search long and hard to find the Dell Windows Server 2003 64-bit drivers for the PERC 5/i because for some reason when you enter your server’s system tag and search for SAS RAID drivers only the 32-bit version is available for download. Normally you can load the manufacturer’s drivers during the Windows setup by pressing F6 – S to specify mass storage drivers once the blue installation screen appears. This is a common problem, especially with newer RAID controllers.
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