Installing Guest OS on Virtual Server - Disk Formatting Failing

[damber]

Hi,

I'm running Windows 2003 Server with Virtual Server 2005 R2. Unfortunately I'm having problems installing a guest OS (windows 2003 server again).

The problem is with the formatting during the set-up procedure - whether I do quick or standard, FAT32 or NTFS it just doesn't get passed this point. It will get to 100% on the NTFS and FAT32 (std) formats, but only gets to 20% on the quick versions.. either way it doesn't complete (just stops at that percentage).

Server hardware is running 5 SCSI drives with 4 using software raid (striped).

I've tried with dynamic virtual disks, as well as fixed virtual disks.. same results with both.

Any ideas ?

If you need any more info just ask.

Thanks in advance

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[damber]

I seem to have 'resolved' it.. more luck than judgement though - reinstalled Virtual Server and re-ran the install of the guest OS.. it has now passed the formatting stage (albeit slower than a normal install of w2k3), so hopefully back on track..

Apologies, I can't provide the root cause/reason behind it - and I may still need to come back if the next install doesn't work!

cheers.

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