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I've got an old Dell Dimension 8300 desktop I decided to convert into a WHS box. I popped in a pair of 1 TB SATA drives, which were recognized fine by the BIOS and the currently installed OS (XP), so I decided to go ahead and install WHS. Near the end of the installation, WHS acts like it can no longer find the DVD drives (either of them, the box has a DVDROM and a DVDRW). The specific error is gives is the "Can't configure storage" error.
I've found several forums where people say they get this error if they remove the boot DVD during the installation (at the time of the first reboot). However, I never removed the DVD. After the error, if fails into WHS, so it did mostly install and I can work with WHS. However, it refuses to recognize the network card, video card and while it shows the two DVD drives, any CD/DVD I insert in either drive the system says is corrupted and unreadable, even though none of them are.
I've tried several reinstalls both removing and not removing the DVD, but the result is the same regardless. Any other tricks anyone found?
If I can't figure this out, maybe I'll just install SBS2008 and fake it up to be similar to WHS with some addin tools. Shouldn't be too hard to create something since WHS is based on SBS2003 anyway.
EDIT: Never could find a solution to get it to recognize the IDE DVD drives, so I'm going to try and install SBS2003 R2 instead.
The big thing you lose with SBS2003 is drive extender. Pretty much everything else is available as a standalone app somewhere. – Jay Bazuzi – 2010-12-01T01:31:43.190
Yea, and that was one of the primary reasons I was going with home server. Of course, they're removing that feature from the new edition of WHS, so maybe it was for the best anyway. – BBlake – 2010-12-01T13:02:11.283