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reformating Dell Power Vault 725N vwith other OS

Hi All,

I have a very old NAS

Dell Power Vault 725N which I need to reformat due to system slowdown and the OS is Windows 2000 "powered" ?

"Because it uses Windows 2000 Server Appliance Kit, the 725N is a self-configuring Windows 2000 server that has been optimized for the server appliance role and requires no console."

more info: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,692650,00.asp

I've download the mgmt software file from: http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/am360a05.exe but still have no clue on how to do the reformatting of this NAS.

the reason is that It refused to accept a file over 4 GB transfered using the LAN cable into it, therefore it is of no use to me if i can't reformat it.

and also I wonder if i can just install Windows 2003 Small Business Edition into it or OpenFiler to make it as iSCSI SAN solution.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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Derek Schauland

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jjoz

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thanks to all for replying my thread,

i haven't contact Dell yet simply because I'm sure that the warranty is already out of date.

and I found it quite difficult to reformat the Server it as it doesn't have optical drive, I wonder if i can use the existing Windows Server 2003 SBE license that I've got here.

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jjoz

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ah yes,

i could use a SATA-USB2 cable converter to plug the DVD-ROM drive into it.

thanks for the idea MeyersD.

Duncan Meyers

Pleasure.

jjoz