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Clicking on the Drive options (advanced) option displays a number of options including the deletion, creation and formatting of partitions on the listed disk drives. In addition, the Load driver option allows any driver necessary to access a disk drive to be loaded into to system so that the device may be used as an installation destination. For the purposes of this installation, the entire disk drive will be used as the installation target. The following figure shows a single, unpartitioned disk drive with the Drive options displayed:
[[Image:windows_server_2008_disk_partitions.jpg|Selecting a Windows Server 2008 R2 destination installation disk]] Click Next to begin the installation process. A new screen will appear listing the progress of the installation and highlighting the fact that the system will reboot a number of times during the installation.
== Accessing the Command Prompt during Installation ==
At any point during the setup process (except when the installation is actually being performed) Shift+F10 may be pressed to gain access to the command-prompt. From within this command prompt window most of the standard Windows Server 2008 R2 command-line tools are available allowing tasks to be performed that might otherwise not be possible from within the setup interface. A full list of available commands and respective descriptions can be found in [[Windows Server 2008 R2 Command-line Tools]].
