Hello,

 

We have a PowerEdge 2400 that was running SBS 4.0.  We wanted to go to 2000 as this server was no longer being used.  The server has 3 8GB drives set up as two containers. 1 2GB container for the system partition and 1 16GB container for the data partion.  As you know 2GB is not enough for the system partition for a Windows 2000 machine.  So I went into the configuration utility and deleted both containers and then created 1 18GB container.  I then rebooted the Server with the Windows Server CD in the drive and it began the 2000 setup proceedure.  I then installed the Win2k Perc2/Si drivers.  Now Windows setup is able to see the available disk space so I progressed on to the Format page where I selected to create a new partition and format it NTFS.  Everything looked fine, but the Format progress bar is stuck at 0% and just sitting there.

 

Is there anything that I did wrong?  Did I miss any steps?  Can anyone give me any guidance?

 

Thanks!