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Windows Cannot find Microsoft software license terms - During Server 2016 install
I am getting the following error when trying to install Server 2016 Standard. Any idea of the fix?
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.
- ok
- I had the same issue installing a Windows 10 VM on HyperV. Changed to static memory and that took care of it.
David Molnar I have a video on that, check it out. It's for BIOS-based systems.
Here is the video.
4 differences for UEFI:
1. 'con gpt' after 'sel dis 0'
2. no 'act' when setting up first partition
3. when creating first partition use 'efi' instead of 'pri'
4. format the 'efi' partition as fat32 not ntfs.
1. I stopped Virtual Machine.
2. I go to Edit Virtual Machine Settings
3. In the hardware tap. I removed Floppy Device. I clicked OK.
4. Started or Played Virtual Machine.
It worked for me.
Best Regards
So I know this is 3 years late, but I stumbled across this post when I ran into the same error. I read the best answer but was unconvinced that my ISO was corrupt as I literally just ran the creation tool before attempting to boot from the ISO. Come to find out, the issue stemmed from me not clicking 'Finish' on the creation tool wizard before I pointed the install media of my Guest VM to the .ISO it had created. Apparently the finicky thing wants you to click 'Finish' first before you can use the .ISO, as I did this and ran through the process again and it worked. Hope this helps someone.
- I just ran into this issue installing Windows 11 from a bootable USB drive, created by the Win11 MCT. After retrying the installation it did work though.
David Molnar for me (on Hper-V) the only solution that worked was to disconnect from the internet virtual switch. Then when I tried again - everything was okay 🙂
1- turn off the VM
2- turn off Dynamic RAM (set to static RAM)
3- increase the RAM (I used 8000 MB of RAM =~ 8GB
4- turn on the VM back again
5- try again
it should work now- I just want to add you get this with a VMware automated install, it can't acknowledge the terms and conditions, so produces this message.
A manual install resolves this.
(3 downloads of 5GB and checksums, and the epiphany struck) just remove the floppy disk & doneDavid Molnar
