On a fresh install of Server 2012 Essentials I ended up with the following:
The DATA drive was from my old WHS v1 server - I installed to allow me to migrate the data to the new storage space. The problem is that it has been set up as the system partition and I want to reuse it for something else. My plan is the following:
- I have created a 1GB volume on the same disk as my Windows boot volume
- Tag this new volume as Active
- Reboot the server using the install image (USB stick) and perform a boot recovery to install the necessary components to enable this new volume to take over as the system partition
Will this work, or does the system partition have to lie first on the disk?
Bonus question: How do I set up this new system partition as a Windows Recovery Environment?