I don’t know how, but after messing around with Disk Manager in Windows Server 2008 to format a USB drive, my whole OS partition was destroyed. Luckily I had done a Time Machine backup of my whole system and I was able to restore in no time. Doing so, I had to destroy the Windows Server 2008 partition that I had and I am trying to get back on track at this point.
Ironically, this second time around I’ve had more troubles than the first time I installed it. I am using the exact same ISO file I had built when I first blogged about this. For starters, Windows would not format my HFS+ 15 GB partition, it failed saying that the underlying process failed. In order to fix this, I booted on OS X and used Disk Utility to format the partition to FAT32 (curiously enough, DIsk Utility also failed to format the partition as NTFS). After formatting to NTFS, the Windows Server 2008 installer was able to format the partition to NTFS.
I burned the ISO file using Disk Utility, and everything was running smoothly. When 2008 started expanding files, I got an error about “Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0×80070017. It must be my lucky day.
Right now I am burning the ISO image using Roxio’s Toast for OS X. If you do not see an update in this post regarding this issue, you can assume that the problem was fixed by burning the ISO with Toast.
Don’t you just love when these things happen when you are racing against time?
Why don’t you install windows 2008 in a virtual machine? I am running Windows XP right now which is runnning on virtualbox on Ubuntu.
By: mike on December 15, 2008
at 1:22 pm
@mike: Thank for the suggestion! The thing is that I needed to demo Hyper-V on WIndows Server 2008 – else I would have virtualized it for sure
By: csaborio on December 18, 2008
at 2:56 pm