Comments on: Add-In: Home Server SMART 2012 v2.2.5.2

By: alexanderd

alexanderd — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:52:10 +0000

check out Microsoft Article ID: 2781272 it is a hotfix for UEFI system PC’s.
its worked for me

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:57:07 +0000

WHS 2011 cannot backup EFI partitions.

I read that the EFI partition is only created during Windows installation if the disk is bare (not-formatted). You may have luck by pre-formatting the disk as NTFS before installing Windows.

Sorry, I’ve lost the link and haven’t had a chance to try the re-format for myself, but I wanted to make sure the information got posted.

By: Haroon

Haroon — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:29:05 +0000

I’ve just spent several hours researching this same issue, and finally found some useful information on this site.

http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2011/02/27/gpt-and-mbr-disk-partitioning-a-supplement-to-byob-33/

The amount of misguided information regarding this problem is significant. So raising awareness on sites like this are critical.

In my case, I formatted a 76GB HDD on a new EFI capable mobo, not realizing that the default formatting would create a GPT boot drive with an EFI partition versus the MBR partition. So I’m not even using a 3TB drive, and I have this problem. I’m now looking at Acronis Drive Director and other similar products to repartition the drive to avoid reinstalling everything from scratch.

Thanks!

By: David

David — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:24:10 +0000

I’ve just learned (the hard way after buying WHS and trying for days to troubleshoot) that Windows Home Server 2011 does not support backing up computers with a EFI/UEFI motherboard. Also it will not back up hard drives with a GUID partition – sometimes it does not back up any hard drive if there is a GPT hard drive in the mix. Making it worse, obviously any hard drive over 2TB must be partitioned GUID.

I was wondering if you could draw some attention to this issue as more and more computers are now being sold with EFI motherboards and they will not work with WHS. Also computers with drives larger than 2TB. It seems like it will potentially be a huge deal in the near future.

I have gotten nowhere with this issue and am pretty frustrated since I had a fine Amahi server and decided to make the painful switch (moving all my data from JBOD to normal disks to WHS was not fun).

Thanks for your time.

PS your contact us form doesn’t work.