khanorak

Yes, but another problem showed up when I switched the WillShowUI to ALWAYS. The deployment wizard did not install Applications in the POST OS installation phase.

Anyone???

Cluberti Seniore A little help would be appreciated...

I don't know if it's a solution. But Somehow I did manage to get a Windows 7 Partition Wizard during the OS Installation Phase of the Deployment. I disabled the Format And Partition Task in Task Sequence and then went on to edit the Unattend.xml file. There I added a setting Component from the Windows 7 image named "Disk Configuration" to the Answer file; though I didn't include any other sub-components. It was included under the 1 windowsPE ; Microsoft-Window-setup_neutral component. Then I selected the Disk Configuration and changed it's setting WillShowUI value to ALWAYS. Rebuilt the .iso. When I ran the setup, the Windows 7 partition wizard, which would pop up during normal install, popped up. Please tell me whether this was a correct step and if it would affect something at a later stage? sir Johan Arwidmark?? Thanks.

Thank you for the reply... I'll go with your second option... I want the MDT Wizard to prompt me for partitioning layout... But I don't know how to script it.... That's why I quoted Cluberti's post.... I think making the Partition Wizard pop up during deployment was a good method... If Cluberti could spare a few minutes to please elaborate it...

Thanks for the Quick Reply... But What I need was a GUI or On Spot Customization of Formatting and Partitioning during Windows 7 deployment....

First of all, I consider myself too low on Tech-Knowledge so please pardon my noobness. I used MDT 2010 to create an unattended Windows 7 installation, having some applications to be installed. All is fine except for one problem. During the install, The MDT during PE does not ask for the customization of Drives i.e. Formatting and Partitioning. If the installed is a Fresh install, MDT by default wipes out all the drives and creates only one partition of all the available HDD space. Now the problem is I don't want it like this. I have been searching for the solution for 26 hours. I have been through a lot of scripting and XML coding etc etc, but I ain't really in to these. (again pardon my noobness) Then I found cluberti's post This was what he said I Installed Partition Wizard on my computer. I copied the Partition Wizard installed folder and its files to the SCRIPTS folder of the deployment-share. I then wrote a .cmd file, start /w X:\Deploy\Scripts\Partition Wizard\PartitionWizard.exe. Saved this file to the SCRIPTS folder. In the Task Sequence, Under the New Computer Only group, I added a Run Command Line with the contents cscript.exe "%SCRIPTROOT%\PartitionWizard.cmd" Completely Rebuilt Boot Images, but when the deployment commenced, the Partition Wizard did not start and gave 7 errors. Can anyone help???

I Installed Partition Wizard on my computer. I copied the Partition Wizard installed folder and its files to the SCRIPTS folder of the deployment-share. I then wrote a .cmd file, start /w X:\Deploy\Scripts\Partition Wizard\PartitionWizard.exe. Saved this file to the SCRIPTS folder. In the Task Sequence, Under the New Computer Only group, I added a Run Command Line with the contents cscript.exe "%SCRIPTROOT%\PartitionWizard.cmd" Completely Rebuilt Boot Images, but when the deployment commenced, the Partition Wizard did not start and gave 7 errors. Can anyone help???