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you need a gpt drive not a mbr drive<br />
I'm guessing you want to use hyper-v as the base operating system. When you boot the system you will be presented many options and you must boot with the EFI boot and not the legacy cd/dvd boot option.<br />
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subsequently you will get an Microsoft boot option in your boot preferences. You will then use it from now on once the OS has been installed.
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Thanks for the time you spent, I ended up using this program to create a bootable usb<br />
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<a href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/" rel="ugc">http://rufus.akeo.ie/</a>
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We have a brand new Dell Server (R520) 32GB of ram, with 4 x 2TB hard drive, raid 5, usable 5.5TB's or so, I would like to install Windows 2008 Hyper V server. The issue that I am having is that I only want two partitions, one 160GB and the other the rest of the 5TBs, when I use the lifecycle manager it will allow for two partitions, but won't find the boot option for my hyper v, unless I choose BIOS mode, but when I do that I have to make several partitions no larger then 2TBs, what OS in the lifecycle manager do I choose?<br />
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Please advise me for the install.<br />
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Thanks for your time.
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We have a brand new Dell Server (R520) 32GB of ram, with 4 x 2TB hard drive, raid 5, usable 5.5TB's or so, I would like to install Windows 2008 Hyper V server. The issue that I am having is that I only want two partitions, one 160GB and the other the rest of the 5TBs, when I use the lifecycle manager it will allow for two partitions, but won't find the boot option for my hyper v, unless I choose BIOS mode, but when I do that I have to make several partitions no larger then 2TBs, what OS in the lifecycle manager do I choose?

Please advise me for the install.

Thanks for your time.

you need a gpt drive not a mbr drive
I&amp;#39;m guessing you want to use hyper-v as the base operating system. When you boot the system you will be presented many options and you must boot with the EFI boot and not the legacy cd/dvd boot option.

subsequently you will get an Microsoft boot option in your boot preferences. You will then use it from now on once the OS has been installed.

Thanks for the time you spent, I ended up using this program to create a bootable usb

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Poweredge R520 UEFI Hyper-V - Too many partitions

We have a brand new Dell Server (R520) 32GB of ram, with 4 x 2TB hard drive, raid 5, usable 5.5TB&amp;#39;s or so, I would like to install Windows 2008 Hyper V server. The issue that I am having is that I only want two partitions, one 160GB and the other the rest of the 5TBs, when I use the lifecycle manager it will allow for two partitions, but won&amp;#39;t find the boot option for my hyper v, unless I choose BIOS mode, but when I do that I have to make several partitions no larger then 2TBs, what OS in the lifecycle manager do I choose?

Please advise me for the install.

Thanks for your time.

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

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