Dell poweredge 1650 and norton ghost

http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/KCS/KcsArticles/Print?he Embedded System Management (ESM) log - also called System Event Log (SEL) or hardware log - reports potential hardware problems in Dell PowerEdge servers. Sometimes, simply turning off the server and disconnecting it from the electrical outlet will remove the error message. Wait approximately 10 seconds, and then reconnect the power cable and restart the server.

Other times, you will need to clear the ESM log to remove the error message. For instance, error code SEL FULLindicates that you will need to clear the ESM log. (You will lose the server's event history.) There are different ways to clear the ESM log.

To use DSET to Clear the ESM Log

1. Download and open the DSET utility.
2. Click the plus (+) next to System, and then click the plus (+) next to Logs.
3. Click ESM to highlight it.
4. Click Clear ESM Log located in the upper-right corner of the page.

To use OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) to clear the ESM log

1. Start OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA).
2. Log in to OMSA by entering your username and password, and then press Enter.
3. Click the Logs tab, and then click Hardware.
4. Click Clear Log located next to Options.

To use Dell IT Assistant to clear the ESM log

1. Start IT Assistant.
2. From the middle System Tree bar, select your server by clicking it.
3. Click the Logs tab, and then click Clear Log in the upper-right corner of the page.

Find your Dell PowerEdge server model in the chart below for other ways to clear the ESM log:

PowerEdge server model How to clear the ESM log 2300, 2400, 2450, 2500, 2500SC, 2550, 4300, 4350, 4400, 6300, 6350, 6400, 6450
Use the Log2Txt.exe utility to clear the ESM log:

1. Start your server to the Log2Txt utility.
2. When you see the ESM Log main menu appear, press 2 on your keyboard to select Clear ESM log.
3. When the ESM Log main menu reappears, press 5on your keyboard to exit the utility.

1650, 1850, 1800, 2600, 2650, 2800, 4600, 6600, 6650, 7150, 6800, 6850, R900
Use the DRAC or ERA to clear the ESM log:

1. Type the IP address of the Remote Access Controller (RAC) in the web browser address bar, and then press Enter.
2. Log in to the RAC.
3. Click the Logs tab, and then click Hardware.
4. Click Clear Logs located in the upper-right corner of the page.

1850, 2800, 2850, 6800, 6850
Use the program BMCCFG.exe to clear the ESM logs:

1. Download and extract the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit here.
2. Go to x:\Dell\Toolkit\Tools, where x is your primary hard disk drive.
3. Copy the file BMCCFG.exe to a bootable floppy disk.
4. Start the server from the bootable floppy disk.
5. At the command prompt, type bmcc - clearsel, and then press Enter.
   The message "Clearing SEL" will display while the log clears.

1950, 2900, 2950, DP500, DP600, NF500, NF600
Use the BMC/BIOS to clear the ESM log:

1. To open the BMC menu, press the Control + Ekeys during POST.
2. From the list, select System Event Log, and then press Enter.
3. Select Clear System Event Log, and then pressEnter.

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1) is it an old server, perhaps the DVD drive needs cleaning 2) Perhaps the Windows DVD needs cleaning, check for scratches. 3) is the Windows DVD an original? if it is a copy or download, maybe the DVD is not bootable or the image is damaged 4) is the installed Drive definitely a DVD, the drives in that server were optional so are you sure it is not just a CD drive that is installed.

How about downloading or creating a bootable USB image and try booting from that. Look online, Win2003 Server USB images may be available for download

ok you will need to get the windows 2003 drivers for your raid controller and put them on a floppy disk. when you first boot off the cd you will see a prompt to press f6 if you need to install any additional drivers. insert the floppy disk and select which driver you wish to load.
you should be able to see the hard drives now to partition/format.

buy the software

Hey,

I looked over the spesifications for the poweredge 1800 servers, go ahead, it will work perfectly but there is one problem in the windows XP setup, you will need to insert / load SCSI or SATA drivers for the hard drive With a floppy disk, or if you don't have a floppy drive your going to need to create a custom windows xp setup cd and add the drivers into it so it can start the SCSI or SATA hard drive and finish the install. without the drivers it might not find the hard drive.

Aside from that I don't see any other problems. You should be able to get the drivers, and everything ese from dell site
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/

Actually I looked over the dell downloads, I see only windows 2000 on the list with windows server 2003, and 2008 and linux distributions.

This could be a 2nd problem, drivers might not be avaialble, or work with xp, but we might be able to get it to work.


So two problems, SCSI or SATA drivers in windows xp / windows 2000 setup

2nd problem is in windows xp drivers, you could try windows 2003's drivers and 2000's and see if they work, if not, then we would have to look for drivers ourselfs from the internet.

So xp might cause headache but we might get it working, windows 2000 seems to be supported perfectly.

Let me know how the project goes
Thanks,
Ekse

During setup you must specify any raid drivers that are required. Have the raid controller driver on floppy and insert when prompted.

You can use a hard drive imaging program such as Norton Ghost to create a recovery DVD(s). Norton Ghost is available as part of System Works or as a stand alone program. Power Quest's Drive Image is also an alternative, however it is too old to be compatible with Vista - you could do a Drive Image outside of Windows - booting off the Floppy.

After fdisk and format you need to ensure that operative system is installed into yor hard drive. Using ghost you restore the image disk by booting from ghost image CD if you made a bootable image disk. Ensure Bios is set up to boot from CD.
If you used Norton Ghost ensure you captured the image of full bootable original hard disk drive for same computer. If it does not boot after restoring ghosted image, than the image it is probably not complete. If hard disk image is not good, easiest thing to do is using Windows install CD to installl again operative system, then you eventually restore ghost image.

Just run Ghost in windows and follow the wizard to create a bootable floppy for your hardware

yup... norton ghost should be able to copy the failing disk onto a new disk, Disk -> disk copy