Karin's Answers

Okay so I’ve been trying to install Windows Home Server for 2 days now and it’s a bit frustrating to say the least.  Nothing is ever as simple as you want it to be.

It starts out fine formatting the drives and copying over the installation files but when it reboots and begins the install…..BANG Blue Screen Of Death!!! It’s so frustrating when you get the BSOD and the information provided doesn’t tell you anything. Of course the first thing you think, and usually the correct one, is it’s a driver issue. Well after ALOT of GOOGLING I finally came across the answer. On serverfault.com. Here’s the link http://serverfault.com/questions/37189/blue-screen-on-ms-small-business-server-2003-clean-install the final answer solved all my problems. It was a simple as changing the RAID configuration to RAID/ATA. It’s always amazing to me the amount of time I spend on things that are so very simple and once again I have to ask myself “Where would I be without GOOGLE???”. 🙂

Next issue with this wonderful installation….LOL

I was completing the installation, in the final phases when I get an error that says “Configure Storage Failed 0X80070003” LAME!!!  More GOOGLING and the answer was much easier and much quicker….just put the stupid install dvd back in the drive!!!  LOL

Here’s the link to the answer:  http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/b88a477a-7d7b-49f1-995d-3510f79886be/configure-storage-failed-0x80070003

Here’s the exact solution from that link:

During the final step of WHS installation I have encountered the error: Continuing to configure storage failed: The system cannot find the path specified.  (error code 0x80070003).

 Steps to Reproduce:

1. Begin WHS install

2. After setup files have been copied system will reboot.

3. Remove the installation DVD.

4. Server2003 install will complete and then reboot a second time. 

5. At “Finalizing Installation” step error message is displayed.

             Continuing to configure storage failed: The system cannot find the path specified.  (error code 0x80070003).

6. The reason for this is because the setup DVD has been removed.

 Workaround:

1.  OK the error message and answer no to view log. 

2. Insert installation DVD. 

3. Mouse down to bottom left of screen and click Start -> Log Off. 

4. The system will finish configuration and reboot.

 Best Regards,

        -Tom

Thank you Tom!!  And again thank you GOOGLE!!

That’s all for now!