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Need disk drivers for Dell SC430 for Windows OS Installation

I, for some reason, am not finding the drivers necessary to allow Server 2008 to see the 2 SATA drives in my Dell Poweredge SC430... (The box also has a Pacific Digital QSTOR RAID card, but I don't think I will have any luck finding those drivers supported by Server 2008???) Please point me in the right direction :\

Wesley Miller

Here is the Link for Dell Driver Matrix for your system:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=PWE_430SC&os=WNET&osl=en&catid=&impid=
Wes

dbrennecke

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Well.. that takes me to the same page with 45 links that I have visited before... None of these are simply the SATA device driver and I am not familiar with all of Dell's System Management ISOs to know what is what.
I downloaded a few of their ISOs which contain a slew of disk drivers, but they all say that they are incompatble with the hardware...

TCB1

Try these things listed in this post. Drivermax may be the quickest way. Vista drivers may work in place of Server 2008 ones.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23776364/Need-to-located-missing-Drivers.html

Michael Best

No floppy?
Put SATA drivers on USB
Buy a USB Flash drive $5
Boot from USB Flash drive
How To Boot From A USB Flash Drive
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm
MKBT, Make Bootable
http://nu2.nu/mkbt/
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php
Information about computer floppy drives
http://www.computerhope.com/help/floppy.htm
Set BIOS to boot from USB
Hit F8 (F5 on some computers) on re-boot to enter BIOS
Install SATA drivers off USB
Set BIOS to boot from CD
Install OS
Set BIOS to "default"

Michael Best

Driver download
http://dell.driversdown.com/dell-drivers-list/s_303_1.shtml

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Michael Best

You likely do not have a floppy drive on that unit. Without a floppy drive you cannot load the needed SATA drivers.Without the SATA drivers, XP install cannot do anything with your SATA drive. XP does not offer anything other than a floppy as a driver resource for RAID, SATA or other odd controller driver formats.Step #1: copy the SATA drivers to a floppy disk on another computer;Step #2: All you need is a USB floppy and cable. Check the BIOS settings to make sure it is recognized.Step #3: When prompted for RAID drivers, hit F6 and stick the SATA driver floppy into the drive.
Or slip streaming SATA controller drivers into a Windows XP install CD
here is a good guide;
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=20748