Install WHS from a USB Flash Drive
April 30, 2008 — Philip ChurchillAs I am sure you are aware, you do not need a DVD drive in your Windows Home Server case as the operating system is headless (no mouse, monitor, keyboard etc). So how do you install Home Server if their is no DVD drive? Easy, if you follow the guide on We Got Served. Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk explains how to install Windows Home Server from a USB flash drive, which I am sure many of us have lying around.
April 30, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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May 1, 2008 at 10:59 pm
System builders if confident surely can mange this simple method of installing WHS, even if just via USB. The big problem here isn’t installing WHS, but rather customers needing to backup their WHS operating system, so they can restore it come trouble. Unfortunately, WHS doesn’t do that for the customers.
WHS Customers who want to backup their data will also want to insure their backup system is able to be backed up as well. That’s a shame WHS doesn’t do that.
May 1, 2008 at 11:49 pm
The WHS Power Pack, available in June, will include this functionality.
May 3, 2008 at 6:07 pm
You’re missing the point Dave. WHS doesn’t provide a method for backing up itself. That’s inexcusable for a device appliance that is used for backing up data.
As for June, well that hasn’t happen as yet, but every WHS customers already has been without this basic needed function since last year when sold!
For a product sold to backup without the means to backup itself, is inexcusable.
Microsoft’s word isn’t to be trusted either, as it’s more than obvious in how Microsoft stated and said during Christmas of last year, it was working around the clock to fix KB 946676 data corruption design flaw, and has only delayed ever since…
The relief hasn’t come… There is NO resolution and WHS doesn’t backup itself. These are FACTS, not rumors.
WHS has got a proven design flaw that causes data corruption. Just as WHS doesn’t backup itself. Saying Microsoft expects to offer this come June 2008, when this basic function should have been provided the first time around is a piss poor excuse… And Microsoft’s internal bar quality failed big time by NOT even checking it’s own software to allow a data corruption design flaw in WHS!
Get a grip on the issues Microsoft….
May 3, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I think it’s you that’s missing the point. You’re going on and on about missing functionality (while completely ignoring everything that WHS has), which is becoming available for free to all WHS owners in a Power Pack next month.
…along with a fix the “the flaw” which you are so astute as to point out in a comment in nearly every thread on this blog. (Troll.)
Meanwhile, you give no one any viable consumer-oriented alternatives to WHS that offers the same functionality out-of-the-box, let alone that also includes this coveted ability to back itself up. (Again, troll.)
May 5, 2008 at 12:21 am
I don’t understand why it’s so important for a backup server to back itself up. I’m serious. It backs up files, meaning they’re always duplicated on the client machines as well. If WHS crashes then the backup files still exist on the clients. You’re exposed for few hours it takes to reinstall WHS and perform another client backup, but otherwise it seems that it would take a remarkable coincidence to actually lose any files.
I’m pretty sure Renee is just another brainless basher.
May 8, 2008 at 7:11 am
@Renee - have you ever used the product? Sounds like you are reading articles from the press trying to act like you are informed…