System Hanging up when adding a hard drive to a Windows Home Server.

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I have an HP

Smartmedia 487 server. I am getting errors

that one of my

drives is starting to fail. So I backed up all

of my files, and am trying to add another drive. I purchased a 1

TB WD Caviar Black Drive that has 32 MB of

Cache. Per everything I have read, I placed a

jumper on pins 7&8. I have placed the

drive into an open slot on my server. The system recognizes it, but when I go

to the console and add it, it goes through the formatting process fine, then

when it says "Adding Hard Drive" it locks up my server. I can no

longer connect to it, the only way I can get a response is to power it down and

power it back up.

Now I am getting a message that says my trial of

Home server is over. Not sure what that means.

I have been working on this for over a week and I really have not had any

luck getting and help, so any help would be appreciated.

Am I doing something wrong?

Do I need to just remove the bad drive and then try to add the good drive?

Do I need to do an entire system reset?

 

 

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