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Generally, but you can also add drives to an existing cluster.
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Do I add my drives to the Windows Server 2008 R2 server before I create my cluster configuration?
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Do I add my drives to the Windows Server 2008 R2 server before I create my cluster configuration?

failover cluster configuration

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Microsoft Server Apps

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