So I’m rebuilding an OEM machine… and feeding it the drivers because the OS does not see the NIC card from the Dell site … and I realize that not only can’t this machine not see the nic cards.. the C: drive isn’t a C: drive.
Now THAT is annoying, isn’t it? That whenever there’s a zip drive it picks that up as a C: drive instead of the read drive.. so now my C.. is my E… arrrrggghhh.. I’ll have to fix that.. as the Dell drivers keep trying to install to a C drive that isn’t there. Normally I unplug the zip but I forgot to do that this time….
hmmm won’t even load up the nic drivers…okay back to the Dell website to see what other drivers are available.
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Susan I have the same issues with the Dell Drac card. I found that by partitioning the drive with SBS disk 1 and then rebooting before you install the OS the bios will reallocate the hard disk partitions at the begining.
hope that helps…
Re: not seeing the NIC…
This drives me crazy too. I blogged about it just the other day.
http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2006/05/25/430223.aspx