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Xtore WSS2003 R2 OS New-install/Recovery Quick Guide
Latest Viewed: Jun-1st-2007
Purpose:
This Guide provides steps for the new-install/recovery Operating System of Microsoft
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. With Xtore bundle Recovery DVD disc. You may easy to
install /recover Xtore WSS system as the following models:
1. XN-104R-T2xx Series
2. XN-108R-T2xx Series
3. XN-212R-T3xx Series

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MODEL: XN-104/108R-T2xx series
Equipments:
1. USB 2.0 external box with DVD-ROM
2. SATA HARD DISK (10GB capacity or above) x 1 (Recommended creating mirror RAID 1 volume and the OS
will be reserved 8GB capacity of Volume)
3. Xtore Recovery DVD for model XN-104/108R-T2 series with the latest version and BIOS. (For the default
BIOS of setting)
¾USB Keyboard enabled
¾USB FDD as the first boot device
¾USB CD-ROM as the second boot device
¾Watch Dog Timer Enable
¾HDD as the third boot device. Other device boot enabled Drive A: None
Perform Preliminaries
1. Connect the USB DVD-ROM to the WSS
2. Remove other HDDs, Put first SATA HDD1 only (Please mark those removed SATA disk order for
further use, after recovery you have to re-insert disks according to their original disk order to keep
data.)
3. Insert DVD disc into the DVD-ROM
4. Power on WSS system
After 10 minutes end of the installation and DVD disc will be ejected automatically. You can see the
access LED of DVD-ROM stop blinking. (Access LED of DVD-ROM keeps blinking while the
installation.)
Warning: Be careful if there are data existing in WSS. System recovery will re-install the operating system
from scratch, and will delete all existing data/volumes on the first disk. If the first disk contains other
non-redundant volumes, e.g. simple, spanned, or striped, those volumes will be deleted.

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5. Remove the disc from the DVD-ROM
6. Push Power button to Shutdown the WSS
7. Insert other SATA HDDs.
8. restart WSS system (system booting)
9. When you see the LCM display is showing “XTOREWSS” and “IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX” it
means WSS system is ready.
10. Log in as administrator via remote desktop. Default password “winstore”
11. To create a mirror OS volume Note:One more HDD is necessary for system volume mirror to
support booting failover of system volume. Booting failover of system volume is supported with
failover BIOS and watchdog timer implementation
12. Install second disks for performing mirror volume. Right click “my computer” Æ“Manage” Æ“Disk
management”Æconvert 2 disks as “dynamic” disk
13. Install the rest of disks for the RAID 5 volume failover redundancy. As the following configuration
figures.
Warning: Be careful if there are data existing in WSS. System recovery will re-install the operating system
from scratch, and will delete all existing data/volumes on the first disk. If the first disk contains other
non-redundant volumes, e.g. simple, spanned, or striped, those volumes will be deleted.

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MODEL: XN-212R-T3xx (With 3ware 95xx-12 MI Hardware RAID Card)
The WSS in a Hardware-RAID configuration contains the first two drives in a RAID 1 mirrored configuration.
And your first two disks contain only OS volumes.
The drives in the hardware-RAID WSS are controlled by a 3Ware RAID controller card, 95xx-12MI, installed in
your WSS. All disks appear as logical disks to the OS. You can manage the disks via either 3BM or 3DM 2.
When using the provided DVD disc to recover the OS or install the OS for the first time, you have to use 3BM to
create a Mirror (RAID 1) unit on the first two disks. Two disks in a Mirror configuration is strongly recommended
for the OS fault tolerance. Then you can restore the OS image to the Mirror unit.
Equipments:
1. To configure OS SATA disks to connect a KVM cable
2. USB 2.0 external box with DVD-ROM
3. IDE HARD DISK (10GB or above capacity) x 1 (Recommended creating mirror RAID 1 volume and the OS
will be reserved 8GB capacity of Volume)
5. Xtore Recovery DVD for model XN-212R-T3 with the latest version and BIOS. (For the default BIOS of
setting)
¾USB Keyboard enabled
¾USB FDD as the first boot device
¾USB CD-ROM as the second boot device
¾HDD as the third boot device. Other device boot enabled Drive A: None
Using 3BM2
To create one mirror unit (RAID 1 recommended) or single disk for the OS disks, perform the following steps:
To create one mirror unit (RAID 1) for the OS disks, perform the following steps:
1. Insert two disks to the WSS:
2. Power on WSS system with VGA and Keyboard connected
3. Press Alt + 3 at the same time to enter 3BM.
Warning: All data on these two disks will be destroyed. Do not insert any other disks into the WSS at this
moment.
Warning: Be careful if there are data existing in WSS. System recovery will re-install the operating system
from scratch, and will delete all existing data/volumes on the first disk. If the first disk contains other
non-redundant volumes, e.g. simple, spanned, or striped, those volumes will be deleted.

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4. Move the cursor to the desired disks, and press enter to select the disks.
5. Move the cursor to Create Unit and press Enter.

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6. Define other options if necessary. Move the cursor to OK and press Enter.
7. Press F8 to finish. Press Yto save configuration and exit.
8. Start to recovery data from DVD disc ( see paragraph of Perform Preliminaries)
Perform Preliminaries
1. Connect the USB DVD-ROM to the WSS
2. Remove other HDDs, only leave First SATA HDD (Please mark those removed SATA disk order for
further use, after recovery you have to re-insert disks according to their original disk order to keep
data.)

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3. Insert DVD disc into the DVD-ROM
4. Power on WSS system
5. Coming out Warning message shown:
6. Press “Y” to continue install
7. After 40~60minutes (Due to USB1.1 ports take longer to recover data) end of the installation and
DVD disc will be ejected automatically. You can see the access LED of DVD-ROM stop blinking.
(Access LED of DVD-ROM keeps blinking while the installation.)
8. Remove the disc from the DVD-ROM
9. Push Power button to Shutdown the WSS
10. Insert other SATA HDDs.
11. restart WSS system (system booting)
12. When you see the LCM display is showing “XTOREWSS” and “IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX” it
means WSS system is ready.
13. Log in as administrator via remote desktop. Default password “winstore”
14. Install the rest of disks for the RAID 5 volume failover redundancy by click 3DM2 application. As the
following configuration figures.

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Warning: Be careful if there are data existing in WSS. System recovery will re-install the operating system
from scratch, and will delete all existing data/volumes on the first disk. If the first disk contains other
non-redundant volumes, e.g. simple, spanned, or striped, those volumes will be deleted.