Since HP SmartStart CD went the way of the dodo bird before Windows 2012 R2 was released, HP ProLiants older than a Gen8 require administrators to manually install Windows 2012 R2. On ProLiant Gen8 and higher, you have Intelligent Provisioning – the replacement for SmartStart – embedded on the system, but this isn’t available on G7, so the user needs to manually install Windows according to the. In the case of the HP ProLiant DL380 G7, the normal Windows installation doesn’t recognize the P410i storage controller during installation and it fails with the strange “We can’t create a new partition or locate an existing one.” Searching forums, you find several solutions suggesting boot order or removable mdia like USB or SD storage causes the problem in many cases, but for the DL380 G7, however to get past this on my servers, I needed to download the storage controller driver and add it during installation. You will need a USB drive where you can load the drivers during Windows installation. The steps to do this and successfully install Windows 2012 R2 are below:.

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Browse out to hp.com and go to the Drivers & Software download section or directly to. Search for the DL380 G7 in the search and click on the link for the server displayed after search. Select Windows 2012 R2 as the operating system dropdown. Navigate to Storage Controller and download the latest “.” If you use this link, make sure to check revision history to ensure this is the latest available.

Click the Download button and then run the.exe file. Use the Extract button to copy all the files onto a USB stick. Boot the system and begin Windows 2012 R2 installation from CD or from ISO connected via remote console on the iLO. Click the Install Windows. Custom Installation.

Storage window – choose Have Disk. Make sure USB is plugged in on the server. Choose the HP driver.

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Click next and the installation will now continue instead of giving the error. Philip is a IT solutions engineer working for AmWINS Group, Inc., a specialty wholesale insurance brokerage based in Charlotte, NC.

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With a focus on data center technologies, he has built a career helping his customers and his employers deploy better IT solutions to solve their problems. Philip holds certifications in VMware and Microsoft technologies and he is a technical jack of all trades that is passionate about IT infrastructure and all things Apple. He's a part-time blogger and author here at Techazine.com. View and opinions are my own and not reflective of my employer. Great thanks to Amit and CR – I had been loading the driver for the 410i controller – but some G7s would install Windows and some would still complain they couldn’t use the drive. Sometimes trying, failing, and then going back a few screens would help. But on the most stubborn example, simply changing the boot order from the BladeSystem OA so that C: was on top literally made it work on the fly – no reboot necessary.

It’s old crappy hardware, so I probably will never come up against this again, but this is one resolution I won’t forget.

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