PowerVault NX Series Network Attached Storage Systems Windows Storage Server 2016 Administrator's Guide

Recovering an OS partition

Follow this procedure to recover your OS partition if becomes corrupt.

1. Turn on or restart your system, and press F2 to boot into System Setup.
2. Click Device Settings.
3. Click Integrated RAID Controller 1: Dell PERC <PERC H730P Mini> Configuration Utility.
4. In the Configuration Utility menu, click Virtual Disk Management.
5. Verify the following:
   • Your original Data partition or partitions are shown
   • No OS partition is listed
6. Click Back without making any changes to the data partitions.
7. In the Configuration Utility, click Create Virtual Disk.
8. In the Create Virtual Disk dialog box, select the RAID Level and Capacity options.
   • Select RAID Level — See the standard RAID configurations above.
   • Select Physical Disks From — Unconfigured Capacity.
9. Click Select Physical Disks, choose the drives to configure for RAID.
10. Click Apply Changes.
11. Wait for the Success screen to display The operation has been performed successfully, and then click OK.
12. Under Create Virtual Disk Parameters set the following options and leave remaining options set to their default settings:
    • Virtual Disk Name — enter a unique name such as OS
    • Virtual Disk Size — in GB (currently this partition is 140GB).
    • Default Initialization — Fast (for example)
13. Click Create Virtual Disk.
14. In the Warning screen, select Confirm and click Yes.
15. When the message appears that the virtual disk was created successfully, click OK.
16. Click Back two times to return to the Configuration Utility Main Menu.
17. Click Virtual Disk Management.
18. Verify that both the newly-created OS partition and the existing data partitions are present.
19. Click Back to return to the Configuration Utility Main Menu.
20. Click Controller Management.
21. For Select Boot Device select OS Partition.
22. Click Back to return to the Configuration Utility Main Menu and click Finish.
23. Click Finish again and reboot the system.
24. During the restart, press F2 to boot into System Setup .
25. On the System Setup Main Menu, click System BIOS.
26. In the System BIOS options, select Boot Settings > BIOS Boot Settings.
27. Verify that the Integrated RAID Controller 1: PERC H730P Mini is present and is selected as the Boot Option.
28. Back-out of the BIOS, saving any changes as needed.
29. Restart the system and press F10=Lifecycle Controller to proceed to deploying the OS.