Tag:How To's & Guides

UEFI Installation of Windows 7 – Video Edition

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is now becoming more important as manufacturers release hard drives over 2.2TB. These new drives require GPT to fully access the drive space but systems running BIOS will not boot with GPT drives. I put up a 10 minute video of the Windows 7 UEFI Installation, so read on to find out a little bit more about UEFI.

3TB Western Digital Drive on a UEFI day night

Leave it to UsingWindowsHomeServer, BYOB and the Home Server Show Podcasts to be the first to bring you an article for installing Windows 7 in UEFI on a 3TB Western Digital drive. I dropped the $200 for a 3TB drive at Best Buy and spent this Friday night doing a simple UEFI installation of Windows 7. Read on to find out more about this easy installation.

Installing Windows Home Server Code Name Vail on a Virtual Machine

If you don’t have spare hardware available to install the Windows Home Server Code Name Vail beta you can still try it out in a virtual machine.

Newbie Windows Home Server Developer Kit Released

Nick over at Asoft has contacted us to let us know that he has put together a collection of really useful documents and guides to help would-be Windows Home Server add-in developers get to grips with their first add-in.

How To Perform a Server Reinstallation of Windows Home Server

Continuing our series of “How To….” guides, this one is all about how to perform a server reinstallation of the Windows Home Server software in the event of a problem, or just because you want to.

How To Install Windows Home Server

Continuing our series of “How To….” guides, this one is all about how to install the Windows Home Server software.

How To Use a USB Stick to Install Windows Home Server or anything else for that matter

Continuing the “How To….” guides, this guide looks at using a USB key to install Windows Home Server, either on a machine that doesn’t have a DVD Drive or just because you can use a USB stick.

Backing Up Your Windows Home Server Shared Folders with an External Hard Drive

Continuing our series of “How To…” guides, this guide explains how to use an external hard drive to backup your Windows Home Server Shared Folders easily and without much effort.

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