Saturday, December 11, 2004

SBS2K3 first glitch DCPROMO won't install

Didn't take me long to break it!
Having just started the setup phase of the installation I came across this error "Cannot run DCPROMO because the sysvol partition is not formatted as NTFS".
Fortunately Google came to the rescue with a bunch of pages where this issue has been discussed and the work around (contained in this KB article) identified as the solution.
Interestingly enough Susan (the helpful SBS diva) wrote the official Microsoft Article about this.

The cause of the problem and the solution are as follows:

CAUSE
While Windows Small Business Server 2003 can be successfully installed on Basic Hard drives, the error may occur due to RAID, or SATA controllers. You may wish to review the documentation provided by your Server's Motherboard vendor as to recommended hard drive configurations.
RESOLUTION
Converting the hard drives to dynamic may resolve the issue. On the server, open up the Disk Management Console, then on Disk management under Storage and right mouse click on the hard drive to convert it to dynamic from basic.

In my case converting the hard drives to dynamic did indeed resolve it.
More pages discussing this problem.
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Posted by: Jethro | 1:45 AM |