Problem reinstall of WHS 2011 to SSD smaller than 160GB

embeathome

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Mar 27, 2013
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Hi,

i installed WHS 2011 yesterday on (new) 120GB SSD from USB flash drive without any troubles. However due to major mistake i made during installation (wrong PC name - same as already used in network for other PC) i need to reinstall it and give during new installation i need to give the server different name.

I tried same way as i used for installing WHS - from USB flash drive and also on USB flash drive in root of it i have also cfg.ini file which contains below:

[WinPE]
ConfigDisk=1
CheckReqs=0
WindowsPartitionSize=MAX

However it doesn't work. Installation stucks after choosing of HDD saying that my HDD is smaller than 160GB :( I really don't understand why since the method is the same as fresh install. Any idea what i am doing wrongly (I would rather say what Microsoft is doing wrong...)

Do i need to clean/delete/format SSD so it is empty? If so, what steps should i avoid not to damage SSD or not to slow it's performance?

Many thanks, i can't move furher and i am sick of it already...

Martin