My wife's office has given me their old Dell PowerEdge SC1430 simply because it was going to be binned otherwise!! Lunacy, I know.
My problem is that it needs a Windows Server 2003 (SBS) login password. Nobody knows it and the IT company wants to charge a callout fee... rubbish!
So I thought I would reinstall Windows. I don't have a copy of Server 2003 SBS but do have the product key. What I do have access to is free copies of Server 2008 and Server 2012 (from Microsoft via Dreamspark) because I am a student.
I am worried I am going to run into driver problems and don't know if the drives are encrypted.
I usually perform secure erase commands when I delete data on a drive using hdparm or the CMRR DOS software. The two drives are plugged into a raid card. If they are encrypted am I likely to run into issues? I thought about plugging the drives directly into the motherboard and running secure erase commands. I have only ever encrypted drives using bitlocker and used a usb key upon boot to access the drives. My laptop doesn't have TPM hence the usb stick.
Once I have two clean drives and I am ready to install Windows is it simply a matter of plugging the drives into the raid card and installing windows or will I need to install raid drivers first? My only other experience of a raid card didn't need a driver but that was a bog standard £3 pci card off ebay... I just pressed f? and said 'use raid 1'
Sorry for the elementary questions... I could probably succeed in all of this blindly but really don't want to turn this into a substantial doorstop!
Thanks
Rik
My problem is that it needs a Windows Server 2003 (SBS) login password. Nobody knows it and the IT company wants to charge a callout fee... rubbish!
So I thought I would reinstall Windows. I don't have a copy of Server 2003 SBS but do have the product key. What I do have access to is free copies of Server 2008 and Server 2012 (from Microsoft via Dreamspark) because I am a student.
I am worried I am going to run into driver problems and don't know if the drives are encrypted.
I usually perform secure erase commands when I delete data on a drive using hdparm or the CMRR DOS software. The two drives are plugged into a raid card. If they are encrypted am I likely to run into issues? I thought about plugging the drives directly into the motherboard and running secure erase commands. I have only ever encrypted drives using bitlocker and used a usb key upon boot to access the drives. My laptop doesn't have TPM hence the usb stick.
Once I have two clean drives and I am ready to install Windows is it simply a matter of plugging the drives into the raid card and installing windows or will I need to install raid drivers first? My only other experience of a raid card didn't need a driver but that was a bog standard £3 pci card off ebay... I just pressed f? and said 'use raid 1'
Sorry for the elementary questions... I could probably succeed in all of this blindly but really don't want to turn this into a substantial doorstop!
Thanks
Rik