{"id":218,"date":"2010-02-27T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-02-27T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:35:33","slug":"windows-server-2008-install-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2010\/02\/windows-server-2008-install-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows server 2008 install error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installing a new server with Windows Server 2008 to a blank hard drive and during the install process it fails at the disk format stage with <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/927520\">Microsoft KB article KB927520<\/a> about this and I figured that the obvious issue was that the drivers for the main board SATA controller did not match with the MS supplied drivers.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of issues with this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the suggested solution to download\/update the drivers cannot be undertaken on a bare metal system, particularly when the network card is yet to be enabled to allow for communication<\/li>\n<li>the Intel mainboard came with a special self-booting driver and management disk, but it failed to read the DVD because it could not recognise its own controller until the drivers were available, a real catch-22\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So having tried a number of options, I opted to grab one of our 2003 Server install disks just to verify that there was no actual hardware issue. Having successfully installed Windows Server 2003 I then loaded the Intel CD to do the BIOS and system updates. <\/p>\n<p>Once that was loaded I checked the disk via the Disk Manager utility and converted it to Dynamic, as I would be doing a software mirror later and then I loaded the Windows Server 2008 disk to try again.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what, it all works like there was never an issue. Upgrade option worked a treat.<\/p>\n<p>As a side issue I was mildly peeved to have a new Feb 2010 server delivered with a new motherboard that required patches and updates that were dated September 2008 which implies that the last time Intel did any on board updates was around 3 years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation is resolved by installing Windows Server 2003 and upgrading to 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-servers","category-windows-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}