Hi,
Sure this a noob question, but need to ask anyway. I have completed a few restores to dissimilar hardware but have encountered the same issue for 2 like servers recently - Dell 2970 restored too from older HP servers - everything came back up fine - however I no longer have access to a cd drive. The Dells are sata scsi raid perc6i - the cd/dvd is seen in BIOS and I can boot from it - but it is not seen in Windows 2k3 R2 Server OS when loaded..
Dell, so far, are at a loss - drivers reinstalled - sata connections pulled/uninstalled/hardware detected etc to no avail. I have removed drives and checked OEM manufacturer for drives etc, again still no results. no joy in disk manager either.
Final note: the hardware manager shows an error in "other devices" RAID Controller but no errors seen in drive categories