Building a Windows 8 Home Server

Wegotserved's series on building a Windows 8 Home Server has been completed through part 6, "Installing Windows 8". Other parts have included a long multi-page post with many screen shots showing how to physically build a computer that will work as your Windows 8 Home Server (part 4 of the series) and configuring the bios of your new machine (part 5 of the series.)

In part 6 of the series, they walk us through how to install Windows using the Microsoft USB tool that allows installing the operating system from a downloaded file by using a USB device such as a memory stick:

Yes, that’s right – we’ll install Windows 8 using something called the Windows 7 USB tool.

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Building a Windows 8 Home Server: Home Server Hardware

As promised, I am updating the status of the Wegotserved series on building a Windows 8 Home Server. Part one of my post is here. Wegotserved is providing a series of articles about using Windows 8 as a replacement for the end-of-life Windows Home Server (WHS) product. Microsoft has announced that there will be no follow on to WHS and WHS 2011 - thus the need to explore other options if you want a reasonably priced Windows based home server.…

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