- Mar 31, 2014
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Hello,
I am having an issue installing Windows Server 2012 R2 on a pair of 3TB drives in RAID-1. Here's what is happening:
I started installing the server on a fresh pair of 3TB drives. The drives are connected to a StarTech PEXSAT34RH PCI-E RAID controller card and setup in a RAID-1 array. When the setup wizard got to the part where I select a disk to install on, I told it to create a new partition and use the maximum space. As soon as it did I realized I forgot to initialize the disk as GPT. The first partition was at around 2TB and the remainder was leftover as unallocated.
I back out of the installer and into a command prompt. I used diskpart and ran the following commands:
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
assign
This created a GPT for me and utilized the entire disk space. I go back into Windows setup and now I get prompted that a needed driver is missing. I figure it was complaining about the RAID card driver. So I go and get that from the manufacturer website, load it on to a USB drive, pop it into the server and load it. The driver appears to load, but the drive still don't show up.
I try giving windows everything I can think of and I can get the software to recognize my drives again. I have tried converting back to MBR, running the clean command to wipe out the partitions in general. I tried breaking the mirror and setting it up again. I even tried plugging the drives straight into the Mobo and creating the RAID array that way. In every case Windows complains that it needs a media driver and everything I give it doesn't do anything for me.
Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? I'm guessing I did something wrong in diskpart. I've used it before in the past to make up partitions and whatnot, but this is the first time I had to work with a GPT due to disk size. At this point I could care less if I get a GPT out of it, so long as I can get the server to recognize the drive again works for me.
Many thanks in advance!
I am having an issue installing Windows Server 2012 R2 on a pair of 3TB drives in RAID-1. Here's what is happening:
I started installing the server on a fresh pair of 3TB drives. The drives are connected to a StarTech PEXSAT34RH PCI-E RAID controller card and setup in a RAID-1 array. When the setup wizard got to the part where I select a disk to install on, I told it to create a new partition and use the maximum space. As soon as it did I realized I forgot to initialize the disk as GPT. The first partition was at around 2TB and the remainder was leftover as unallocated.
I back out of the installer and into a command prompt. I used diskpart and ran the following commands:
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
assign
This created a GPT for me and utilized the entire disk space. I go back into Windows setup and now I get prompted that a needed driver is missing. I figure it was complaining about the RAID card driver. So I go and get that from the manufacturer website, load it on to a USB drive, pop it into the server and load it. The driver appears to load, but the drive still don't show up.
I try giving windows everything I can think of and I can get the software to recognize my drives again. I have tried converting back to MBR, running the clean command to wipe out the partitions in general. I tried breaking the mirror and setting it up again. I even tried plugging the drives straight into the Mobo and creating the RAID array that way. In every case Windows complains that it needs a media driver and everything I give it doesn't do anything for me.
Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? I'm guessing I did something wrong in diskpart. I've used it before in the past to make up partitions and whatnot, but this is the first time I had to work with a GPT due to disk size. At this point I could care less if I get a GPT out of it, so long as I can get the server to recognize the drive again works for me.
Many thanks in advance!
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