Pretty sure you can't instal any windows to a removable drive aka USB*
I will be experimenting this weekend myself.

 * note, excludes Windows 8 To Go and Windows PE doesn't count.

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rick Berry <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have a lab PE R900 that used to run ESXi 4.x off a USB stick with
> 8x146GB SAS drives on a single virtual disk ... tried to pave it and just
> redo it as a layer 1 Hyper-V 2012 server booting from the ISO to install,
> and it doesn't like the RAID partition regardless of how I present it?
>  Completely doesn't see the USB stick at all, 32GB puppy.  BIOS is up to
> date.
>
> It sees the correct size, but regardless of it being blank or formatted
> (or set primary or whatever other DISKPART things I've tried) it doesn't
> want to install on it.
>
> Nor does it wish to see the USB stick as a install target like ESXi does.
>
> I googled around, didn't really see much to guide me but I may be
> completely missing the point (never did mess around with the prior version
> of Hyper-V as a straight hypervisor install like ESXi) ... so assuming I'm
> missing something basic and embarrassingly stupid like "you can't install
> it onto a PERC array directly".  Or maybe I'm mistaken in another
> assumption about layer 1 installation of hyperv 2012 along the chain ...
>
> I'm going to venture to guess that the USB stick is not an option like it
> would be for ESXi?
>
> Rick
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