cswaters1

Thanks for the input! Today I am using ghost32, but I would sure like to adjust that boot record... Ghost is good but I want the info on the DOS partition to be copied from a central repository and be managed from there. I have found the following information: When I use FDISK and FORMAT from a 622 disk the maximum size of the partition is 2044 where as when I use diskpart the max can be as big as you like but I'm using 2047 to squeeze fat16 in. I tried dsfo /dsfi \\.\c: 0 512 filename.dat, but I am wondering if all I am copying is some raid disk information or something. This is HP Proliant server hardware, HP/Compaq store raid configuration of the server locally on the disk, not on the raid array. So ghost it is today. Thanks again for your suggestions!

Thanks for the Ghost32.exe info, this does work! I also found drvspace.bin is in the c:\ dos partition after fdisk and format /s is performed. I've tried using about 5 different utilities to tray and copy the MBR information from a working computer to this server but, nope not wanting to play, just get 'error missing operating system'... This is really doing me in, I can go the ghost way, but would really just prefer to use a command line utility to sort the MBR out... Any other suggestions please! Cheers for your help!

Hi, This is a bit of a strange question but, well I'm using winpe to create a build process but I've reached a point where I can use all the winpe /win32 tools to create a partition < 2048MB and format it as a FAT16 disk, I would really like to just copy the COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files across and then use some kind of utility MBR? kind of thing where I can make the partition bootable to COMMAND.COM all form within WinPE. What do you think, am I mad? is this possible? It will be used to build quite a lot of servers so it needs to be command line based so I can perform this from a script? I tried using MBRFIX and copying a .BIN from a disk/partition formatted using FDISK, FORMAT and SYS etc, and tried restoring this to the new winpe diskpart / format partition but no joy, any help would be really appreciated. Many thanks, Craig.