Installing The Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer TS150 Operating System Installation Manual

a. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver to your server and click Load Driver.
b. Click Browse to locate the required driver and then click OK.
c. In the "Select the driver to be installed" window, select Hide drivers that aren't compatible with
hardware on this computer. Select the driver that you want to install, and then click Next
to install the driver.
• If your SATA configuration is set as AHCI: go to step 9.
9. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, click Drive options (advanced).
10. Select the drive on which you want to install the operating system, and then click New.
11. Type the amount of space (in MB), and then click Apply.
12. In the Windows Setup window, click OK.
13. Ensure that the drive partition is correct, and then click Next. The installation begins. Your server
will restart several times during the installation.
14. In the Settings window, type your password and click Finish.
Note: The password must contain at least eight characters and consist of upper case letters, lower
case letters, and numbers.
15. Follow the instructions on the screen to log in to the operating system when prompted.
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials operating
system
This topic provides instructions on how to install the Windows Server 2012 Essentials operating system.
Note: Before installing this operating system, connect your server to the network.
To install the Windows Server 2012 Essentials operating system, do the following:
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device, and start the server from the optical drive.
2. When the message Press any key to boot from cd is displayed, press any key. If the message Windows
Setup [EMS Enabled] is displayed, press Enter. If the message The Windows is loading files... is displayed.
Wait several minutes for the system to load the files.
3. When the Windows Server 2012 window is displayed, configure the language and other options you
need, and then click Next.
4. Click Install now.
5. Type your product key and then click Next. The product key information is available on the Microsoft
Certificate of Authenticity label or product packaging.
6. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then click Next.
7. Select the type of installation you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Custom:
Install Windows only (Advanced) is selected in this step.
8. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, depending on the SATA configuration on
your server, do one of the following:
• If your SATA configuration is set as RAID (both OB SATA RAID and ADD on RAID): do the following:
a. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver to your server and click Load Driver.
b. Click Browse to locate the required driver and then click OK.
c. In the "Select the driver to be installed" window, select Hide drivers that aren't compatible with
hardware on this computer. Select the driver that you want to install, and then click Next
to install the driver.
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