I am trying to install Windows on a HP Microserver Gen8. It contains 4 rust drives in the main bays, and an SSD in the optical slot. The nature of the HP BIOS is such that the SSD needs to be created as an "array of one" before it can be used, but I've done that, and set it as the primary boot drive. When I run the Windows setup, I get the error message "We couldn't find any drives".
You might think that's a hardware error, or at least a BIOS problem, but the BIOS can see the drives, I've configured them - and to test the hardware I have also installed Proxmox, just to see if that worked (it did). I even went so far to try and install Windows inside Proxmox, as a VM, but Windows "couldn't find any drives" there either.
I've tried an alternative 2.5" rust drive in place of the SSD and fared no better. I've also tried doing away with the optical slot drive, and tried to install to a main bay drive, still no good. Though to be fair I didn't expect either of those to work, with the Proxmox experience to hand.
I'm trying to install from the official CD that came with my licence, but I've also created a boot setup usb on a stick from another Windows PC, and that's no good either, same fault. I do have another Gen8 with a similar hardware spec already set up. I didn't try to install Windows straight to that, but it contains Proxmox with a Windows VM and that all just worked.
Any ideas what I can try next?
You might think that's a hardware error, or at least a BIOS problem, but the BIOS can see the drives, I've configured them - and to test the hardware I have also installed Proxmox, just to see if that worked (it did). I even went so far to try and install Windows inside Proxmox, as a VM, but Windows "couldn't find any drives" there either.
I've tried an alternative 2.5" rust drive in place of the SSD and fared no better. I've also tried doing away with the optical slot drive, and tried to install to a main bay drive, still no good. Though to be fair I didn't expect either of those to work, with the Proxmox experience to hand.
I'm trying to install from the official CD that came with my licence, but I've also created a boot setup usb on a stick from another Windows PC, and that's no good either, same fault. I do have another Gen8 with a similar hardware spec already set up. I didn't try to install Windows straight to that, but it contains Proxmox with a Windows VM and that all just worked.
Any ideas what I can try next?