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Windows Server 2012 R2 Install

Can anybody please help with this?I had a clean install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard installed on a RAID1 volume (2x 480GB SSDs); the install went without a hitch, including no need to load drivers or anything else. I decided I wanted to upgrade to Windows Server 2016 Standard, so from the new setup disk, I selected a Custom Installation and deleted the System Reserved partition (probably shouldn't have done that) and the OS partition (Disk 0) so that I was back to unallocated space for a clean install. However, Windows Server 2016 Standard will not install, giving me an error 'Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error: 0x80300024.' I guess this error is due to timing out trying to create the partitions. It's a Supermicro X10SDV-7TP4F motherboard.

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I called them to make sure there weren't any problems with 2016 on it. There aren't any known problems, drivers are available, and they even installed 2016 on a new drive just to check. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance! So, for anybody who's interested, the cause of the error appears to be that I had my optical drive (used to install the OS) connected to the wrong controller on the motherboard. The SuperMicro X10SDV-7TP4F motherboard has two controllers: a Broadcom (LSI) controller for the 16 SATA3/SAS2 connections via the 4 ports, and an Intel controller for the other 4 ports. I accidentally had the optical drive connected to the LSI controller instead of the Intel controller.

Windows Server 2012 Installation Steps

Once I switched that, everything was fine. The error I was getting was when I was booting Legacy; if I booted UEFI, then my optical drive was not visible at all to boot the Windows Setup disk. Once I connected my optical drive to the Intel controller, UEFI boot was good and Server 2016 installed no problem.Thanks to everybody for their input and helping me solve this little annoyance!