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TechACE

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February 15th, 2017 17:00

T330 - Server 2012R2 - 2 New SSD - RAID 1 Config - Can't Create/Find a Partition

  • Removed the factory installed 500Gb HDD
  • Installed 2 new 480GB SSDs (non Dell brand, they are back ordered way out)
  • BIOS Setup - SATA - Changed to RAID
  • Rebooted
  • CTRL - R
  • Created a RAID 1 virtual drive
  • Rebooted
  • system see's RAID 1 drive
  • Boots from MS Server 2012R2 CD
  • Goes through configuration
  • At "Where do you want to install Windows"
    • Drive 1 Partition 1 displays
  • Selected the above partition, I get the following error message
    • We couldn't create a new partition or find a existing one"

Suggestions??

Thanks.

Anonymous

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February 16th, 2017 09:00

Hello.

  • At "Where do you want to install Windows"
    • Drive 1 Partition 1 displays
  • Selected the above partition, I get the following error message
    • We couldn't create a new partition or find a existing one"

This error usually occurs during you operating system installation directly from the bootable media when the internal SD card has a higher preference than the RAID controller in the boot device sequence. You can either disable the internal SD card or boot into the system setup using F2 key during POST and give the RAID controller a higher preference than the SD card in the boot device sequence.

TechACE

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February 16th, 2017 18:00

No SD Card.

Here is how i corrected the issue.

  • F2 BIOS Config
  • Changed SATA to RAID
  • Rebooted
  • Ctrl-R to enter RAID controller
  • Setup 2 SSD 480Gb Drives as RAID drives, RAID 1
  • The partition became ready
  • Rebooted system before reading from CD/DVD with WS 2012
  • F10 to enter LifeCycle Selection
  • Chose option "RAID with Operating System installation"   (maybe not correct name)
  • Went through process for Manual installation
  • The RAID partition was chosen, took the rest of the defaults
  • Got to the scary part of choosing a partition (this is where it normally failed)
  • Selected the RAID partition hit Enter, and GREAT GREAT GREAT
  • No Installation Issues

So, the catch here was not to go from creating the RAID partiion directly to booting from the MS 2012 installation media.   But to go through the Life Cycle menu system and use that to boot to the media.

Don't recall reading that anywhere.   Serves me right for getting lazy and having the WS 2012 already installted when I retrieve the server.

The above is not listed as a step by step but to give you the gist of what worked for me.  Actually I did it twice to make sure.

Let me know questions or other things that would have made this easier.

Darryl

Georgia

davz11

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May 28th, 2018 18:00

My error during partition in windows server 2012 r2 is "We couldn't install Windows in the location you chose. Please check your media drive. Here's more info about what happened: 0x80300024.". I have 2 SSD in RAID 1 Kingston model SUV400S37/240G, tried your CTRL - R method, but the raid controller can't detect it. But when i'm in lifecycle controller it can detect it and possible to create RAID 1.

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