Hi, I was wondering if there is a workaround for the HD limitation of a minimum of 65GB before you can install WHS on an old PC? ... Couldn't find anything on google... Can someone please confirm that it doesn't exists? TiA!
Thanx for your answer Sebus. But as i said.. it is an old PC... so i have a 40 GB HD in it... And it is IDE.. so i will not invest in a 80 GB disk... So please..i just need an answer if there is a workaround or not.. NO other answers please..i can think of that too... Thnx anyways..
Sebus is right, 80GB HDDs are peanuts these days, £10 on ebay, simple. But to answer your question OP, there is no hack to remove the HDD size minimal limit, AFAIK.
The 65Gb limit is for Vail I believe, not WHS based on Server 2003 And what kind of *****build does the above procedure create? sebus
@xinso, Wouldn't it be quicker to buy a second hand 80gb HDD on ebay. @Sebus, WHS v1.0 (SVR2003) min specs are 65gb HDD WHS v2.0 (Vail) min specs are 120gb HDD @Everyone, WHS v1.0 would have real problems with that small a HDD, as free space on the SYS drive is used as a 'Landing Zone' for file transfers. PP3 is ment to fix this, but with WHS v1.0 the bigger the HDD the SYS drive is on the better the performance.
Not to mention how old the drive must be, it would suck hard to go through all that work only to have the drive fail. I mean why bother? Just spend 50 bucks and buy a new one
Image mit Ghost (oder ähnlichem) Hi, if there is time for it and space on a different Client install it there an use Ghost disc-to-disc cloning with resizing Krabbler
Looks like WHS v2.0 (Vail) or WHS 2011 has increased its min specs to include 2GB RAM as well. Sounds good, remove the most important parts of the OS and still increase the min specs.