Windows Home Server

You want your biggest disk as the os drive matey,

The os disk is used as the landing zone for any data you copy to the whs, before it gets farmed out to your other drives.

Always use your largest drive as the os drive :)
 
Datamonkey said:
You want your biggest disk as the os drive matey,

The os disk is used as the landing zone for any data you copy to the whs, before it gets farmed out to your other drives.

Always use your largest drive as the os drive :)
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Not any more. It was changed in PP1 and I've seen the disk activity when I copied stuff over. Data never went on the system drive.
 
Datamonkey said:
You want your biggest disk as the os drive matey,

The os disk is used as the landing zone for any data you copy to the whs, before it gets farmed out to your other drives.

Always use your largest drive as the os drive :)
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Even so, would you copy more than 450Gb in one go?
 
...Trying to install WHS on a p5nd2-sli with a pentium D 2.8 and a 400gb sata hdd.

Always seems to restart, freeze or bsod at various points. Could be installing devices, registering devices or random places it would seem. Blue screen include PFN_LIST_CORRUPT or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or just a STOP screen etc. Could get to 24 mins to go, 19 mins or once was actually 8 mins before it froze, crashed etc. It never actually finishes :(

Tried with an 80gb sata hdd and everything went OK all installed fine.

Assuming its failing on the bigger drive (400gb, also tried 160gb same failures) because of the size and I need to load something at the beginning or after the first reboot (f6 option) what am I looking for?

Never had a problem with an OS before so any help would be appreciated :)

Thanks.
 
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It won't be because of the size. Mine has a 500Gb as a system drive. The only thing would be to install RAID or SATA drivers, but since it picks up the drive fine, then its not that. Possibly a memory issue? Do diagnostics on the 400gb drive, could be failing.
 
...Well it installed fine on the 80gb sata without any drivers. I've tried 3 other drives: 160gb sata, 320gb (ide) and a 400gb sata. None of which will work.

Can't believe they are all failing and all are showing up at the beginning of the install when the warnings appear about all data being lost. :confused:
 
Copy of my post from main hardware forum. Now I've discovered this thread it seems more appropriate. Sorry, for double posting, but I can't delete the other post.

Hi

I'm building myself a new WHS and was thinking of using the following parts. It will be running Tvversity, and thus may be transcoding some videos on the fly. I've proposed AMD due to the very low power requirements and the great reviews that the 780G chipset has been getting for blueray decoding (it may become a HTPC within 6 months and the server gets moved onto my current machine). Its going to be in the spare bedroom so needs to be ultra quiet.

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H Mobo
Athlon 64X2 4850e Cpu
Antec 300 case (+new fans if it proves to be too noisy)
Cheap ish (but CL5) 2gb DDR2 800 memory. (or would 4Gb be better)

I already have a 1Tb HDD, CPU cooler and PSU. My budget is limited to £200 and the above set-up comes in on the nail. I'd like to do my little bit for the environment and use a low power system.

Would you guys suggest anything different?

Cheers
 
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Ok, first attmpt at this jsut for fun on a spare machine. I've installed from the DVD iso I downloaded, everything is fine but now to access it I need the Windows connector software on the remote machines right? Where is it? I've searched for 30 min and cant find it anywhere. Someone please put me out of my misery and post a link!
 
you to connect to your server,


click start in the run box type \\your servername

then browse to the software folder and then connector software and run setup

you dont need to do this though, you can just create a short cut on your desktop as \\your server name.

But that would be pointless ;)
 
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