5. Type your product key and then click Next. The product key information is available on the Microsoft
Certificate of Authenticity label or product packaging.
6. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then, click Next.
7. Select the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Custom:
Install Windows only (Advanced) is selected in this step.
8. In the “Where do you want to install Windows?” window, depending on the SATA configuration on your
server, do one of the following:
• If your SATA configuration is set as RAID (both onboard SATA software RAID and RAID card): do
the following:
a. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver to your server and click Load Driver.
b. Click Browse to locate the required driver and then click OK.
c. In the “Select the driver to be installed” window, select Hide drivers that are not compatible
with hardware on this computer, select the driver that you want to install, and then click Next to
install the driver.
• If your SATA configuration is set as IDE: go to step 9.
• If your SATA configuration is set as AHCI: go to step 9. Be sure to install the AHCI driver after the
operating system installation is completed, see “Installing the driver for the SATA AHCI” on page 103.
9. In the “Where do you want to install Windows?” window, click Drive options (advanced). Then, click
New.
10. Type the amount of space (in MB), and then click Apply.
11. In the Windows Setup window, click OK.
12. Ensure that the drive partition is correct, and then click Next. The installation begins.
Notes:
• Your server restarts several times during the installation.
• If the message displays as “Errors occurred during installation”, you need to manually install the
Ethernet driver. To install the driver, do the following:
a. Download the driver for an Ethernet card from the Lenovo Web site. If the driver is a compressed
file, unzip it to a folder. The most up-to-date device drivers for various server models are always
available for download on the Lenovo Web site at:
http://www.lenovo.com/drivers
b. Copy the folder that contains the driver to your USB storage device and connect the USB storage
device to your server.
c. Open the Device Manager window. Right-click on the graphics card that requires drivers, and then
select Update Driver Software.
d. In the Update Driver Software window, click Browse my computer for driver software.
e. In the Browse for driver software on your computer window, click Browse... to locate the driver
you want to install.
f. Click OK ➙ Next.
g. When the message “Windows has successfully updated your driver software” is displayed, click
Close.
13. Configure the date and time, and then click Next.
14. Choose the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Clean
install is selected.
15. Personalize the server by typing the computer name and then click Next.
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