Windows PE 2.0 - XP Disk partitioning issues

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Jens — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:46:23 GMT

I'm pretty much at my wits' end. I installed bdd and wds, everything according to MS installation instructions. Goal is to do a scripted install. I manage to PXE-boot into PE but as soon as I am at the prompt diskpart tells me that there are no fixed disks present. The machine is an old Dell PE2450, the mass storage drivers should be present by default, I included them nonetheless in the out-of-box drivers directory. Still the same result.. "there are no fixed disks to show". Can anyone point me into the right direction? Thank you, thank you, thank you,

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re: Windows PE 2.0 - XP Disk partitioning issues

BenHunter — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:40:42 GMT

I have a quick question. If boot to a Vista install DVD do you see the local hard drive?

If the drivers are not present in the Windows PE then you will need add Vista mass storage drivers to out-of-box drivers as this is what Windows PE 2.0 uses as its base OS.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Windows PE 2.0 - XP Disk partitioning issues

kellyk.gallant@aliant.ca — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:55:58 GMT

In our environment, regardless of what is on the hard drive (SMSTasksequencer, minint folder) we need it to format the drive and always do the OSD. As it is, if the minint or smstasksequencer folders are present, it does a refresh. Can I configure my task sequence to always do a new clean install?

Thank you.

re: Windows PE 2.0 - XP Disk partitioning issues

BenHunter — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:09:26 GMT

Hi Kelly,

The SMSTasksequencer and minint folders should not exist on a client after deployment. If they do exist then that suggests that there was an issue with the previous deployment.

The only time you should get a refresh build is when you aunch the deployment process from within the Host OS.

If you launch from CD/WDS then it should do a clean install.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Windows PE 2.0 - XP Disk partitioning issues

kellyk.gallant@aliant.ca — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:42:16 GMT

Hi Ben,

Not often, but at times, the image deployment gets interrupted and we have to start over with the image deployment. When this happens, we have to manually format the drive before it will successfully image. Is there a way to configure the task sequence to always format and partition disk, regardless of the gather deciding to do a refresh?

Thanks

Kelly

re: Windows PE 2.0 - XP Disk partitioning issues

BenHunter — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:45:09 GMT

Hi Kely,

You can do this using Windows PE. There is a post by Johan Arwidmark.

http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/JohanArwidmark/tabid/78/EntryID/48/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Thanks,

Ben

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