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HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 HOW TO
HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 INSTALL
HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 UPGRADE

You can reinsert them after Windows 8 is installed.įirst, we follow the first part of these directions to get the Windows System Image Manager set up to create our answer file, but there are a lot of settings from the latter part of the document that we do not want, because the purpose of that document is to get the machine to boot into audit mode, so you can mess around and test before putting the machine into OOBE (out of box experience?) mode. Please make sure anything on that disk is backed up and its best to make sure no other disks are inserted into your server when doing any of the steps to follow. Note: What I’m going to describe below involves wiping the system disk in the Media Smart Server. Point number 2 is also surmountable by application of some wizardry in the Windows System Image Manager. Other Ex47x enthusiasts out there have figured out the correct sequence of key presses to get the unit to boot off usb.

It does not have a VGA hookup, so Remote Desktop MUST be enabled from the get go, along with the associated user accounts to allow for login.

You can’t see the bios screen to get it to boot off USB.

There are a few challenges to doing this on the Ex470, though:

HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 INSTALL

The solution? I decided to try and do a completely unattended install of Windows 8. People out there have built various VGA adapters that you can buy to hook it up to a display, but one of my goals for this experiment was not to spend any excess money on it (I’ve just spent some cash on computer upgrades, and need to give it a rest for a while). The problem, though, is that it is a completely headless machine.

HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 HOW TO

There are plenty of guides for how to accomplish this out there.

HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 UPGRADE

If you want to run Windows8 you will need to at least upgrade your memory to a sufficient amount for Windows 8 (1GB). The stock processor meets Win8’s minimum requirements but the stock RAM does not. Note: My Ex470 has the stock processor, but I have upgraded the RAM.

Its also super cute hardware, so I wanted a reason to run it some more. Rather than buy some nice NAS form factor hardware to test things out, I thought maybe I would try to get Windows 8 to install on my aging Ex470. Recently I’ve wanted to experiment with whether Windows 8 would make a good home server (since there appears to be no future for WHS now, unfortunately).