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This guide assumes that you have first of all installed Windows 2008 server on your machine and partitioned it as c: (Operating system) and d: (data), note that you can change the partitions after the installation of Windows 2008 server by using disk management and right clicking on a disk and choosing to shrink or extend.

Step 1. Setup and configure active directory
Click on Start and choose Server Manager, scroll down to Roles Summary and choose Add Roles.
When the wizard appears click next.

As WDS needs the folllowing:-
Active Directory Domain Services, DHCP, DNS, we will add the following role first:-
Active Directory Domain Services
We must install this role first before continuing to add the other roles, so lets select it and click on next.

We will then be informed that installing AD requires us to run dcpromo.exe afterwards to  make the server a fully functional domain controller. Click install to continue.

once done we’ll get the success screen

click close to continue
Once done the server manager will list our ADDS service with a red X beside it, click on it to run Dcpromo.exe.

This will open up the Roles section of Server manager, and we’ll see a summary which says This server is not yet running as a domain controller. Run the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard (dcpromo.exe).
Click on the blue text to continue.

This will start the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard. Click on next to continue.

Next we will get a screen telling us that older versions of Windows (pre Vista Sp1 ….) may have problems with a bunch of things including Windows Deployment Services (for more info read KB942564)