HP Z440’s Bricked Hard
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HP Z440 is a workstation model, but I don't know if this one has a raid card or not.
Either way, SOP is to boot into a linux live distro and wipe the disks.
You can use wipefs if it's installed:
wipefs -a /dev/sdX
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Also since it's a workstation (using Xeon) it has a server chipset. I looked and it's a C600 series, C612 to be exact.
If the drives are connected to the server chipset I think you need the C600 driver at install time.
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@travisdh1 Just confirmed with HP tech support that you do indeed need RAID drivers that don't typically exist on a base Win10 install disk. They are having me download a bootable they sent me.
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@G-I-Jones Just confirmed with HP tech support that you do indeed need RAID drivers that don't typically exist on a base Win10 install disk. They are having me download a bootable they sent me.
You are probably better off using Intel drivers since that is what it is. Rebranded drivers that HP and Dell uses are typically usually many versions old.
Might not make much off a difference for the installation itself though.
PS. To use a driver during install you just put it on an USB drive and when the Windows 10 install want to know where you want to install the OS you click on the "Load Driver".
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@Pete-S So just to be clear, you recommend just downloading the C612 driver and loading that during OS install wizard?
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Pete-S So just to be clear, you recommend just downloading the C612 driver and loading that during OS install wizard?
Yes, I would do that. I haven't tried on your particular combination but it's the reason why Windows have a Load Driver option in the first place.
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@Pete-S Yeah, that's the kind of advice I need as I'm all about expanding my arsenal but have next to zero experience booting into Linux. I was mulling through the list and it seems Clonezilla (which I remember @Dashrender mentioning several times before) is the most popular for these sorts of things. would you recommend the same?
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Pete-S Yeah, that's the kind of advice I need as I'm all about expanding my arsenal but have next to zero experience booting into Linux. I was mulling through the list and it seems Clonezilla (which I remember @Dashrender mentioning several times before) is the most popular for these sorts of things. would you recommend the same?
How did Clonezilla come into this conversation?
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Pete-S So just to be clear, you recommend just downloading the C612 driver and loading that during OS install wizard?
Maybe, maybe not - if the C612 driver is the RAID driver, then yes, that's what you want to put on the USB stick (unzipped) and provide to Windows during install.
But if that's just a chipset driver, and the RAID is something else, you'll need to get the RAID driver itself, and put that on the USB stick.
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@Dashrender It's a Linux Bootable. Or that's what Google told me.
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@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Pete-S So just to be clear, you recommend just downloading the C612 driver and loading that during OS install wizard?
Maybe, maybe not - if the C612 driver is the RAID driver, then yes, that's what you want to put on the USB stick (unzipped) and provide to Windows during install.
But if that's just a chipset driver, and the RAID is something else, you'll need to get the RAID driver itself, and put that on the USB stick.
@Dashrender I was thinking that might be the case. I'm just going to go with the bootable they gave me for now, but will look into adjusting fire for future endeavors.
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender It's a Linux Bootable. Or that's what Google told me.
lol - oh.. well, yeah it is, err... but.. so?
if you're thinking that you could use Clonezilla to see if the drives are available to Clonezilla - OK I suppose that makes sense, but not seeing the drive in Clonezilla wouldn't tell you anything, i.e. not seeing it in Clonezilla doesn't mean you have hardware problems.
Linux can suffer the same problems that Windows does - lack of driver support for the storage subsystem in the box. If the Live Linux distro you pick doesn't have the Z440 RAID driver in it, then it won't see the drive any more than Windows will.
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Pete-S So just to be clear, you recommend just downloading the C612 driver and loading that during OS install wizard?
Maybe, maybe not - if the C612 driver is the RAID driver, then yes, that's what you want to put on the USB stick (unzipped) and provide to Windows during install.
But if that's just a chipset driver, and the RAID is something else, you'll need to get the RAID driver itself, and put that on the USB stick.
@Dashrender I was thinking that might be the case. I'm just going to go with the bootable they gave me for now, but will look into adjusting fire for future endeavors.
They are providing you with a Windows 10 ISO that you can put on a USB stick and boot/install from that includes the RAID driver? Cool!
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@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender It's a Linux Bootable. Or that's what Google told me.
lol - oh.. well, yeah it is, err... but.. so?
if you're thinking that you could use Clonezilla to see if the drives are available to Clonezilla - OK I suppose that makes sense, but not seeing the drive in Clonezilla wouldn't tell you anything, i.e. not seeing it in Clonezilla doesn't mean you have hardware problems.
No, Pete was saying SOP was to use Linux bootable to wipe raid sigs and drive partitions. I'm just trying to learn which Linux distros are preferred as I'm new to the idea and the list of Linux disto's are lengthy.
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They are providing you with a Windows 10 ISO that you can put on a USB stick and boot/install from that includes the RAID driver? Cool!
Basically. And yes, very cool.
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender It's a Linux Bootable. Or that's what Google told me.
lol - oh.. well, yeah it is, err... but.. so?
if you're thinking that you could use Clonezilla to see if the drives are available to Clonezilla - OK I suppose that makes sense, but not seeing the drive in Clonezilla wouldn't tell you anything, i.e. not seeing it in Clonezilla doesn't mean you have hardware problems.
No, Pete was saying SOP was to use Linux bootable to wipe raid sigs and drive partitions. I'm just trying to learn which Linux distros are preferred as I'm new to the idea and the list of Linux disto's are lengthy.
Aww - Clonezilla isn't considered a Linux distro - it's really just a tool - one that happens to use Linux to boot the system (because the Clonezilla tool itself is not bootable).
think of it like this the calculator tool on Windows - the code for it on a USB stick is useless, it can't do anything, but, if you boot the system from Windows, then the code can run under windows. Clonezilla is the same.
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
@Dashrender It's a Linux Bootable. Or that's what Google told me.
lol - oh.. well, yeah it is, err... but.. so?
if you're thinking that you could use Clonezilla to see if the drives are available to Clonezilla - OK I suppose that makes sense, but not seeing the drive in Clonezilla wouldn't tell you anything, i.e. not seeing it in Clonezilla doesn't mean you have hardware problems.
No, Pete was saying SOP was to use Linux bootable to wipe raid sigs and drive partitions. I'm just trying to learn which Linux distros are preferred as I'm new to the idea and the list of Linux disto's are lengthy.
Pete's SOP thing is about Live Linux distros - like Fedora Live, or Ubuntu Live. These are OSes that are configured in an ISO format (typically) that can be booted and run from CD/DVD/USB as if they were running from an HDD - only typically much slower.
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@G-I-Jones said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:
They are providing you with a Windows 10 ISO that you can put on a USB stick and boot/install from that includes the RAID driver? Cool!
Basically. And yes, very cool.
No, not cool. You never want a vendor image.
