Add an External Drive to Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server is an upcoming version of Windows Server targeted at home users. It’s extremely easy to add space to your Windows Home Server by just following a couple of simple steps.

Here I will show you the steps for adding an external hard drive. First, double-click on the Windows Home Server Console icon.

   

With the Server Console open click on the Server Storage Icon.

Connect your external Hard Drive to your Home Server and go through the Add Disk Wizard selecting all defaults.

Keep in mind that any data currently on the drive you are adding will be deleted because WHS formats the entire drive to NTFS for total storage space.

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This article was originally written on 04/15/07 Tagged with: Windows

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Comments (2)

1. November 11, 2007 9:51 am
   H. Basco

   I have NEVER been able to install SP2. Every time it was tried by different people, who were extremely computer savy, it crasned the hard drive. Even a letter to LANGA.com came back with a response that “some” may not take the sp2 download for whatever the reason for the glitch. Any opinions? thanks. H. Basco

2. July 18, 2009 11:43 pm
   Tan

   Hi!
   I have a DELL Laptop, bought 6 years ago and still using it now. The problem is that, it is running veeeeeeery slow! What can I do about that? Reformat? Well, To make things worse, My dvd/cd player broke, so my comp. can’t read any CDs! Therefore, I can’t do anything that needs to run on CD, such as reformating the computer or installing programs (to install a new dvd/cd player, for an instance…)

   If I dont wanna reformat my comp, I think I should try the “defragmentation”. Unfortunately, I couldn’t run it. The pop-up instruction said that the “defragmentation” program is not installed! This is strange, I’ve used defragmentation for a few times before. Ok, Maybe I accidentally deleted it, but how to install it back into my comp.? Pls bare in mind that my dvd/cd player’s broke!

   I think I need to install a new dvd/cd player… Is it possible to install without using to installation CD? And, If I manage to find the installation programe online, will it be deleteded when I reformat my comp.? Or worse, half way through the reformatting process?

   Please help.

   Thanks a lot!