WHS2011 ON 40GB SSD FUN

Jakus

Jakus

Jakus

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The little HP microservers are very popular and like many have had a couple for quite a while.
I have tried lots of server OS and I quite like WHS2011 especially as I can run an add-on called Lights-out, You guessed it, it can shut the PC Down :) Now you can hack hibernation but actual shutdown is quicker ! So I'm thinking a nice small SSD as a boot drive = even quicker.

This is where the fun starts, do You think You could install "Vail" ! no a chance and I tried everything !

How I fixed it was Ghost a Previous install to a 20GB primary partition, and add the relevant Boot files from the little 100MB "boot partition " it creates on a normal install, obviously it was not going to boot without sorting the Boot loader etc.. But starting up from the install CD I could not believe there is no usable repair options, why ?

Well essentially the OS looks to be Win764 so I booted from a win7 disk, I did not even need to go into the repair console for the normal, FIX BOOT, FIX MBR etc as it came up "windows has detected errors etc " Quick reboot and all is well :D

Why is it always such a fight do any simple little task with computers ?:D

I Hope it helps someone out there. And Yes from fully off the little microserver is up and running in 50 Secs and saving Me loads of money on electric :D
 
Well done, Yes interesting the error is "partition too large", I really have no idea why MS add all these unhelpful checks ! A simple advisory would suffice as most of the people playing with server software are a little clued up ;)

Must say I quite like Vail, best I tried so far for Home server.

Little tip for lights out config, Just set it to monitor server shares, nothing else is needed ;) I use a free wake on lan to wake it up and all seems good so far !
 
yonderblue said:
If you mean the Windows boot loader 100mb partition then yes. For Data (D: Drive) for my HP Microserver I have a HP P212 Raid controller with 4x2TB drives (RAID5) installed. It is a bit of stretch but I have HP Microserver 4 Bay SAS cable connected to the HP P212, I had re-route the SAS cable to fit.
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Ok, thanks, I just wondered as it was essentially a small drive if windows opted out of creating that boot partition.
 
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