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While the Answer file should take you all the way through setup, once you find your server get’s an IP address you can browse to and you should see a webpage for WHS 2011 to download and run the wizard.

I also constantly refreshed my router DHCP list so I could see when the server obtained an IP address. You should hear the hard drives during this phase. The OS installation takes ~ 8-10 minutes. The health LED will blink the aqua through the BIOS bootup, then aqua/red during the OS installation.

#Where can i buy windows home server 2011 install#

The server should automatically boot off the USB key, format the drive and install all of the operating system files.

Insert the USB drive into the bottom-rear USB port and disconnect all other USB devices.

Connect your MediaSmart or DataVault server to power, and network.

I recommend putting the box up on the desk where you can see the Health LED light and also listen to the hard drive(s). While you can most likely do a factory reset to bring back WHS v1 and get access to your data on other disks in the system, I don’t cover that detail on this blog, and don’t recommend taking that sort of risk with your data. Please note that this will erase the ENTIRE primary hard disk on your server, so make sure you have a backup of ALL your data, and customization. When you’re finished, place the drive back into the MediaSmart or DataVault server.

#Where can i buy windows home server 2011 Pc#

Remove the drive from the server and attach it to another PC (I used Windows 7) and then erase the primary partition. In order to have the MediaSmart or DataVault boot off the Thumb Drive for installation, you’ll need to completely erase the primary hard drive (the lowest one in the MediaSmart/DataVault server).

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Where VAILSERVER is the name of the server, Passw0rd is the server password and some password hint is the hint to remind you of what you set your password to. Inside the cfg.ini, you’ll need to answer questions, so design your file like this: The unattend file is called cfg.ini, and needs to also be in the root of the thumbdrive with the WHS 2011 DVD image on it. As you probably know, the MediaSmart or DataVault server doesn’t have a video input, so you’re going to need to do the install via an “unattend file”. This makes the Thumb drive and the DVD look identical in Windows Explorer. Next up you’ll have to copy the Windows Home Server 2011 DVD to the root of the disk.

#Where can i buy windows home server 2011 how to#

I already have instructions on how to do that here. First you’ll need to format it and make it bootable. I’m actually using the Data Traveller by Kingston.

The image is slightly bigger than 4GB, so I had to step up to an 8GB thumb drive.

The first step here will be to prepare your media, usually on your client computer.

(I hear it works on the ex48x, but I only tried the ex49x) So if you’ve got the grey top, you’ve got a lot more work to do that isn’t covered here. Also, I think the MicroServer is quieter than the MediaSmart (at least the ex475 that I had)Īdditionally you’ll have to use the EX490/495 or DataVault as Vail requires at least 2GB of RAM, which aren’t in earlier models of the MediaSmart servers (e.g. But it’s still a cute little form factor. I took this opportunity to get an HP ProLiant MicroServer, plus it does at least RAID1 (Mirror) where the MediaSmart or DataVault servers cannot do any form of RAID. Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware.