I am creating my first Exchange 2013 server DAG complete with its own dedicated Active Directory in my lab. Currently, I have 4 servers in the domain all running Windows 2012 Datacenter: 1 AD server and 3 Exchange servers (two of which will be configured with just mailbox database role/added to the DAG and the third which is a dedicated CAS as well as my FSW that will not be included in the DAG). Here are the steps I took:
5. Attempted installation of Exchange 2013 (Mailbox Database only) on server4. Upon "Setup Initializing", I was met with this error message:
"The Exchange Server is in an inconsistent state. Only disaster recovery mode is available. Please use Setup /m:RecoverServer to recover this server"
"Disaster recovery setup needs access to the log drive '[default path to mailbox database directory]' to continue."
"Disaster recovery setup needs access to the mailbox database drive '[default path to mailbox database directory] to continue."
....along with the standard send connector wildcard prerequisite error (haven't set up a send connector yet) that I've experienced on all Exchange 2013 installs I've done thus far.
I formatted this machine and reinstalled 2012 3 times already.