Comments on: USB floppy drives during Windows Server 2003 R2 setup

By: Cornads

Cornads — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:26:35 +0000

IT WORKS. Thank you my savior!

By: Fernando Navarro

Fernando Navarro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:30 +0000

Dude…. you are a GOD!!!

There’s no way I could’ve figured this out even if I spent a week on this on my own.

Thanks so much for taking the time to post your fix. It worked like a charm, and thanks to the dude that also posted how to find the PID and Product with regedit.

By: arth

arth — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:29:53 +0000

i have a windows server 2003 r2 client on windows xp lock usb storag devicd???????????????
my mails on arth99@gmail.com

By: Dias

Dias — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:22:07 +0000

Anant:
general routine is:
1. save SCSI controller drivers onto floppy disk
2. make sure your BIOS recognizes USB floppy disk drives (PRIMERGY RX200 S4 has “USB devices:” option set to “ALL”)
3. make sure you include the abovementioned string “id = ….” to announce your USB floppy disk to Windows setup
4. connect USB floppy disk drive ***before*** powering on the server

this is how I did it

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By: Anant

Anant — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:32:57 +0000

I have an IBM X3400 machine with server 2003 installed. Having 2 Partitions on it.I want to format only my C: drive and then want to install same OS on it again.
I tried directly by booting from Server2003 cd but it doesn’t identify SCSI drive and shows a msg during installation like”no hard drives are detected press F3 for quit”.
I tried Server Guied7.4.17 cd to boot from but it also not working.
system gets strated by Server Guied7.4.17 and shows serverguied’s screen but then it doesn’t proceeds at all.
is there any solution for it.
please help me out ASAP….

By: TOSHI

TOSHI — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:48:52 +0000

I’m having the same problem like TAPPS
My Windows Server 2003 can no longer BOOT, missing “ntoskrnl.exe” got the original Windows Server 2003 CD’s try to repair but when it runs, the setup says; it cannot find the Hardrive installed on the system.

By: Rich Holton

Rich Holton — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:09:47 +0000

I need more details.

By: TAPPS

TAPPS — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:38:15 +0000

i am trying to repair my windows 2003 standard edition on an IBM X3250 but it wont find any hard drive,so i was thinking you are the most likely person to give me a solution that works.there is no RAID configured.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:21:20 +0000

Fantastic, it finally works !!! Thanks a lot…

By: Alfredo GonzÃÂ¡lez

Alfredo GonzÃÂ¡lez — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:14:05 +0000

Thanks a lot…

Here you have PIDs of several USB Floppy Drives

id = “USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001″, “usbstor” #–HP
id = “USB\VID_054C&PID_002C”, “usbstor” #–Sony
id = “USB\VID_057B&PID_0001″, “usbstor” #–Y-E Data
id = “USB\VID_0409&PID_0040″, “usbstor” #–NEC
id = “USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC”, “usbstor” #–SMSC
id = “USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100″, “usbstor” #–Iomega
id = “USB\VID_055D&PID_2020″, “usbstor” #–Samsung

By: tim

tim — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:07:25 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!

By: steve

steve — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:16:33 +0000

Ok I am so damn confused. I mean what file are you editing. You cant edit a file on the bootable cd (windows 2003) so where is tis textoem file at that you all are writing to?

By: Aleksandr

Aleksandr — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:46:04 +0000

2_feroz: may be you must set the type of emulation for your USB Floppy in motherboard BIOS, set it manually – Floppy
it set Automatically by default
may be this your problem :)

By: feroz

feroz — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:16:01 +0000

hi can anyone give the drivers of raid controller my floppy was corrupted…plz.. i have IBM System x3400 server and when im installing the OS it is saying “SETUP DID NOT FOUND ANY HARD DRIVES” plz help me..

By: Trk

Trk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:48:15 +0000

That was very helpful. Thanks a lot!

And also thanks to Bartek for the Sony PID.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:46:32 +0000

YOU ARE GREAT!! Thank you very much!

By: Lukas

Lukas — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:28:29 +0000

Hey Luke skywalker!

Thank you sooo much! May the force be with you!

Cheerio Lukas

By: Ricardo Lopez

Ricardo Lopez — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:31:40 +0000

Thank you very much! You really are the best when others can make your solution work!! Thanks again, bye!
-Rick

By: tg

tg — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:28:55 +0000

All,
Please do yourselves a favor and just go buy a cheap usb floppy drive and be done with it! Performing some of the processes above wasted more time than the cost of another drive. I bought a cheap drive, installed it, and moved on with my upgrade.