I have a HP NETSERVER LH II, the thing will boot too Netware 4.11. Thing is that I got this from a radio station an the music was backed up too it. I need to see if there is anything worth keeping. Also, I wanted to put a more modern OS on it as well. However, once I changed it to boot to the disk drive it just launches NetwareGuessing netware 4.11 is running and you dont have credentials to log on and navigate to look?

We had one of these a long time ago, the 266Mhz Pentium II with Wide-SCSI drives for our Exchange 5.5 and Windows NT Server OS. Its very limited in how you can go about getting the data off of the drive(s) while it remains in that box. If your lucky you have like 256MB Ram like ours had, you might be able to get Linux to run on it and bypass the netware security. But if my memory is correct about our box, the BIOS DIDNT support bootable CD's and so we had to use a bootable floppy to get CD Rom drivers loaded and functional.

If you had say a PCI Wide-SCSI CONTROLLER card, and a system with an available PCI slot and room to mount the Wide-SCSI drives you could try to access the data that way from say a Windows XP or newer system and with the drives mounted maybe be able to get past the netware security on those drives and copy data out.

I took our 266Mhz server and tried to give it a second life for a less critical role, but it was showing its age when used back in 2008. Even when the COMPANY decommissioned it and I saved it from the dump, the only role I could find for it was an FTP Server so that I could SEND and receive large files that my e-mail doesn't support. I ended up putting Windows XP Pro SP2 on it, and it worked ok for a FTP server until I replaced it with better hardware and gave it to a friend who needed an old box for Windows 98 SE and old GAMES, which Windows 98 SE screamed on that system.As far as I know you had to have a Server Client to Acess the Server. This would of been the first dual boot units ever. I figured that as much since I found out that it needed DOS based stuff to work at all. The BIOS is set to use boot disks. It really wouldnt work :/ I tried that but, supposeably netware partitons cant be really read. I was probably going to back up some files to the drives mite put like 03 Server on it or somethingLocked