Please help me restore OS for Acer Aspire EasyStore H340

[Ketchup]

The troubleshooting guide also mentions a riser card for access to the board's display output. So technically with a USB stick, mouse, keyboard, display, and riser card, you could put the OS/recovery software on a flash drive and install the OS that way.

But I think you still need to speak with Acer/the original owner about how the device was configured from the getgo/ how to restore the thing.

Question: when you tested the original drive, what did you plug it into? Could you feel the drive spinning?

 

[Binky]

It's been a while since I recovered the OS of the H340 WHS box, but I remember it as the following:

1. Run the server recovery from you desktop computer - this is NOT the server so missing network drivers is not possible. Follow the prompts until you get to the part about booting the server.
2. Shut down the server (its probably already dead, and therefore off)
3. Fire up the server in recovery mode, with working parts like hard drives installed and ready to go (per on-screen instructions, this is a surgical operation with a paperclip)
4. Click next and pray the server is found.
5. If the server isn't found, go to the wegotserved forums and search for solutions, or post and hope Drashna can help you

http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?/forum/131-acer/ <<<HIGHLY recommended reading

 

[Ketchup]

Thank you Binky. This is about how I imagined it going, but since I have never had one of these, it is good to have confirmation from someone who has.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Good info, Binky, thanks.