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Windows Cannot find Microsoft software license terms - During Server 2016 install
It's possible the media is corrupt in which case I'd try downloading from another location to avoid the same copy ISP has cached on their systems. I've also seen this with HP intelligent provisioning in which case I'd ask HP about a newer version of tool compatible with server 2016. Also some hypervisors such as VMWare add an additional floppy drive that causes install media to look for licensing on floppy, in this case remove the virtual floppy from guest and try again. Also try;
Bypassing Easy Install
- First start VMware Workstation
- Create A New Virtual Machine
- Select the option “I will install the operating system later”
- Then your new virtual machine will be added to your virtual library.
- Double click on your new Virtual Machine to start it.
- Then it will prompt that an OS is not installed and provide an option to insert the OS installation media.
- Simply click on Change CD/DVD Settings to select your ISO media then Restart VM.
Had this same error installing W2K16 eval under VMWare workstation 15.
For me the solution was to remove the virtual floppy drive VMW adds by default
This worked for me.
Of all the things! O_o
Nigel Goodchild wrote:Had this same error installing W2K16 eval under VMWare workstation 15.
For me the solution was to remove the virtual floppy drive VMW adds by default
Thanks!! This worked for me too! Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson Turning off the floppy worked for me. Thank you!
- Removing the Floppy drive worked for me as well. Thanks Nigel!
Dan_Snape removing the floppy disk also worked for me, thank you very much for posting
- Thanks!
- I realize this thread is old, but it sure saved me a lot of time! After removing the default floppy drive it magically works, so yay! Thank you Nigel!!
- Works fine!!!
This one solved the issue, thank you
Worked for me too. Thanks
- Good catch! My templates at work don't have any extra peripherals configured, but I was starting from scratch with my home lab and forgot to clean these up. Thanks!
Nigel Goodchild Remove the floppy disks will be the solution. windows server 2016 evaluation. installing started now at 44% Thank you
Nigel Goodchild Thank you!!!!
Nigel Goodchild This method absolutely worked for me, trying to play around with server 2019, the installation was frustrating me with the message it kept coming up with just like yours did, deleted the floppy disk and wow, in minutes server 2019 was installed in Vmware, thank you for the share
- This worked for me too. TNX
