As soon as the computer has shut down, but before it has a chance to restart, switch the computer off (pull the plug or whatever).
Wait until the installer starts the reboot process. This point is the first reboot during the installation sequence. The trick is to run the installation to a point where all the necessary files have been placed on the new drive, but before the server OS becomes aware of its surroundings and adapts the remaining installation to it. Start up the desktop computer and insert the Windows Server installation disk to begin the installation process. Having an unused 1TB disk at hand, I installed the OS on this, and added three 2TB disks in a RAID-5 array later on.)
You can thus get away with a relatively small drive as a system drive. (You may wish to add additional disks in a RAID-5 array later, but since you will be using a software RAID-controller, the OS disk cannot be part of the RAID array. This will be the OS drive of the new server, so choose the size wisely. For a successful installation, this is what you need:ġ) A Windows Server 2008 R2 installation DVDīegin with replacing the internal hard drive of a standard desktop computer to a blank hard drive. Well, finally I managed to find a way of getting Server 2008 on the MSS. I tried, but I immediately ended up with a totally unresponsive server (probably a blue screen or something). Of course just installing the entire Server 2008 OS on a desktop computer and then swapping the disk drive did not work because of the differences in the peripherals, like network adapters, mass storage controller devices and so on. I began wondering whether or not the trick would be to use a different computer to perform the installation on, and then simply transplant the operative system into the MSS. I researched for a long time around various unattended USB-installations with little success, so I began looking for alternative and easier routes. The answer is yes, and if you are trying to do something similar, here are my notes. I figured that the Server 2008 would give me a much more detailed control over my entire setup, and honestly, I was also curious to see if it could be done at all. The X510 (and EX495) hardware is in its out-of-the-box configuration perfectly capable of running Windows Server 2008, unless you are looking for some heavy virtualization tasks. Unable to resist tinkering with my server (HP X510), I took on a challenge to upgrade the onboard plain vanilla WHS OS to Windows Server 2008 R2.
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