Windows Server 2012 Essentials upgrade path?

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isu-skyman,

Great stuff! Very similar to my experiences and techniques. Thanks for the script details :smiley:

I agree with your suspicion that “…the efi bios has startup.nsh as the default boot item” - this is the same conclusion that I came to. Starting with a “clean” efisys volume may not work due to the absence of the startup.nsh.

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…and I come in this morning to failed 0xd9 and the drives wont come online and it says diskpart says “Data error (cyclic redundancy check)”

ugg… 

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oh, that’s not a good error :confounded:

as for the LCD drivers you mentioned earlier… yes, I was not 100% sure about using the WD versions… I did at some point install them onto the system, but later removed them after noticing that the Intel ICH9R LPC controller had been installed… I was not positive if that was from the base/unattend device installation… or if it came in later with the actual RAID and NIC driver installations.

The version that is currently running on my system is 9.1.9.1002 from 10/5/2012 and are from Microsoft… so, I believe they are a part of the original installation media.

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do you know how to recreate the raid from the command line?

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finally got the box back to working status… going to try copy 8tb to see if it fails again… :confounded:

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sorry for the long delay, but out of pocket a bit…

I believe the UEFI will construct the array automatically based on its’ pre-configured settings designed by WD and AMI.  There is currently no utilities that I am aware of to remotely manage the EFI configuration… atleast none that we will be able to have access to.

so, the system should act as WD instructed… 1 disk = no raid, 2 disks = mirrored, 3 & 4 disks = raid 5

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the intel raid command line software completed the task