I have a HP proliant gen8 server on which i want to install windows server 2012. This is supposed to be a file server hence it has 8x1Tb physical drives in it.
The problem is after creating a logical RAID 50 drive, the installation of windows reaches a point where it gives an error of not being able to create partition on disk 0.
Please can I get any help as to what to do?!
N.B: I use the embedded intelligent provisioning to configure the array controllers before OS install…theoretically that handles the raid drivers doesn't it
Best Answer
Is your system set up to use an MSDOS-style partition table?
This will fail in strange and wonderful ways when using any disk over 2TB in size.
For maximum safety, configure your RAID array to create two virtual disks - a smaller (100GB) one for boot and another for data.