Best way to install Windows Home Server

Snow-Munki · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:23

going to build my file server tonight and so far have 1 * 1.5TB HDD.

Should I partition the drive to say 30GB for the OS so that I can do reinstalls at a later date ?

Thanks !

marc2003 · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:27

i haven't used WHS since the beta so things might have changed but IIRC you don't get a choice. it creates a small partition for the OS by itself during setup. it does warn you that it will hose everything on the drive.

PaulB · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:45

Yep, as mentioned - you don'y get a choice.

It creates a 20Gb partition for the operating system and the rest is for storage.

Works a treat though.

Snow-Munki · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:19

Ah cool.

So reinstalls will be easier if necessary then ?

PaulB · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:17

Yep, if you need to reinstall - boot from the CD and the installation gives the option to reinstall or clean install.

Choosing reinstall rebuilds the operating system keeping data intact (not done this myself though).

ChileanLlama · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:00

As above - you might also want to check you have W2K3 drives for your network card and any RAID controllers handy. Good thing is that you can install them from a USB stick during setup - no floppy required