A new screen will appear listing the progress of the installation and highlighting the fact that the system will reboot a number of times during the installation. The following figure shows a single, unpartitioned disk drive with the Drive options displayed:Ĭlick Next to begin the installation process.
For the purposes of this installation, the entire disk drive will be used as the installation target.
WINDOWS SERVER 2008 CLEAN DISK DRIVER
In addition, the Load driver option allows any driver necessary to access a disk drive to be loaded into to system so that the device may be used as an installation destination. Initially, this screen displays a list of physical disk drives available on the system together with any pre-existing partitions on those disks.Ĭlicking on the Drive options (advanced) option displays a number of options including the deletion, creation and formatting of partitions on the listed disk drives. The next screen provides an interface for selecting and configuring disks and partitions for the installation. If the installer was invoked by booting from the DVD, or the host operating system is not suitable for upgrade, only the custom installation option will work at this point. Read and agree (assuming you do agree) to the license terms and proceed to the next screen where the options to upgrade or perform a custom installation are provided. Double click Computer, right-click C: drive and choose Properties. Having selected the edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 that you wish to install, click Next to proceed to license terms screen. Here are steps to free up space on C drive in Windows Server 2008 (R2): Step 1.
WINDOWS SERVER 2008 CLEAN DISK INSTALL
Clicking on Install now proceeds to the Operating System Selection screen shown in the following figure: Alternatively, the What To Know Before Installing Windows Server 2008 link will provide information on system requirements and advice about issues such as application and driver compatibility.
On the subsequent screen the installation may be started by clicking on the Install now button. I am being cautious here, as it is a production environment. As a result, there are quite a few minidump (.dmp) and memory (.dmp) files and used up space in the C drive. However, the server has some issues and it does hang from time to time. Select the appropriate language preferences and click Next to proceed with the installation process. There is a server with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard OS.
The following figure shows the initial installation screen: Windows Server 2008 R2 may be installed either by booting from the installation DVD or by logging into the previously installed operating system as an administrator and launching the Setup tool on the DVD (typically this will auto-run when the DVD is inserted into the drive). Report this ad Starting the Installation Process
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