How To Install Window Server 2003 From Usb
Did anyone try to install windows server 2008 using this tool? Install Windows 2000/XP/2003 from USB Stick (Pen Drive) That is very good to know.
Hi, Install Windows Server 2012 via USB is possible, I have tried it many times, it works great on my side. Before booting from USB, you need to use diskpart.exe command line tool to set the USB device is bootable and active, some basic commands have been listed below: diskpart.exelist disk (Find USB device)select disk 1 (careful! Select USB drive)cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1activeformat quick fs=fat32 (UEFI can only USB boot to FAT32, not NTFS)assign (In this example, USB mount point become F: when assigned.)exit Then you need to copy the file to the USB device (Note: not ISO, folders such as boot,sources). After that you just need press F9 to select boot from USB the installation will continue. Regards, James James Xiong TechNet Community Support. Quote: 'Generally speaking, no one would like to install Windows Server 2012 on the USB device. I want!:) Take a look at the new devices like HP ProLiant Micro server or even most modern new blade or rack servers from Tier1 manufacturers.
These servers have internal USB slot and increasingly micro SD card slot and these slots are designed to boot hypervisors or OSes, so that external hot plug disk bays can be all used just for user data and can be easily swapped. The aluminium based USB keys like Kingston DataTraveler SE9 series are so light and fit so good that it looks mechanically as reliable as SATA plug on HDD drives, drive will not pop-out even if the system is under vibration. Good USB key works FASTER than mechanical SATA drive, boot is faster due to fast seek. I think it would be good decision to allow to install Windows 2012 essentials onto USB drive for home server users.
If its OK for hypervisors shall be OK just for OS boot. The separation of OS on flash card or key and large hot swap data HDD is superb feature. This works on Linux.
I spent several hours trying to find the solution but no success, so at the end I attached the extra mechanical SATA drive. The problem is that on install screen Windows 2012 setup does not allow to select USB based storage even if I set 'HDD emulation' in BIOS for that USB key. If anyone found how to workaround this setup limitation and force Windows 2012 to use USB as a boot/OS drive please post. AlmantasK is correct. This is a necessary feature for home servers.
I too have an HP ProLiant Micro Server and wish to boot my Storage Server 2012 from the USB device. It makes perfect sense to boot via USB and reserve your SATA ports for storage. I would hate to have to use Linux on my Micro Server and it is annoying to have to hack the OS install to force it onto the USB device. Windows 8 To Go is NOT the requested feature. We are NOT interested in carrying around a server OS in our pocket but rather we wish to utilize the bootable USB port to boot the OS for the hardware. If there is any way to do this it would be great to hear. I suppose I could use VMWare to do a P2V then V2P back to my USB device but that is a hack IMHO.
Thanks, David Sandor Mark the best replies as answers! Quoted from: Non-removable The UFD must be a non-removable, internal component built into the server system as described in the 'OEM Policy for Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on UFD' section of this document. The removable-media bit (RMB) in the STORAGEDEVICEDESCRIPTOR storage structure corresponding to the device must be set to zero (0) to indicate that it is non-removable media.
For more information about setting the RMB, see on MSDN. So if one could set that bit to 0, we could start deploying server 2012 to thumb drives.
After some testing, I found it possible to run a full GUI install of Server 2012 on a USB drive. It is best to use a USB with fairly high transfer speeds, such as a USB3 drive. You need to first install Server 2012 onto a physical drive and when installation is finished, run sysprep - generalized with OOBE. The next step was a bit tricky but I succeeded by creating a Windows 7 x64 based PE boot disk. Once the PE was booted, I had to install the RAID drivers in order to access the physical disks.
Using the Windows AIK x64 imagex tools on a usb stick, I created a wim with imagex imagex /capture c: d: local-disk.wim 'Local Disk' where c: is the OS partition and d: is an external hard drive. Once you have the wim, you should be able to follow the steps outlined here: I am not sure as to how long the USB will last compared to a Hyper-V USB install, but so far things seem to be running fairly well even at USB2.0 speeds (my internal server USB port is USB2.0).
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Windows Server 2003 Download
I have been trying to install Windows 2003 from my USB pen drive and have been unsuccessful so far. There are ways to install Windows XP/VISTA/7 out there, and I have used them, but I can't find a way to install W2Kx.
Some of the methods I used: 1. Talk about using the bootsect.exe /nt52 command, which did not work. nt52 is used for 2003 from what I gathered LINK: 2. Another method involved using a freeware which the author claimed was very successful. LINK: The rest of the methods are offshoots of these two methods. I am currently trying to make my USB bootable using a freeware called 'UNetbootin' (dled it from sourgeforge) and hopefully it works.
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But, what I want to know is how make a USB bootable for installing WIN2Kx using the command line interface. BTW, I use Windows7. Any help would be appreciated Edited by brapster, 03 November 2010 - 10:16 AM.