riko00 Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 I am trying to perform an unattended installation of Windows Server 2003 with SP2 on a bare metal HP ProLiant DL380 G4 server, using WinPE 2.0 and customised scripts from the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit 1.9 win32Text-mode setup completes successfully, but when the server restarts to enter the GUI stage of Setup, an error message of "A disk read error occurred" is displayed.A have located the problem to the format section, a can run the installation by format to fat32 first and then convert to ntfs in unattend.txt but a realy want to format using ntfs first.(Diskpart entrys)rescanselect disk=0cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1activeassign letter=cformat fs=NTFS quickor i can format using script later during the installation@%MsTools%\format c: /FS:NTFS /Q /ycopying a lot of files then..c:\i386\winnt32 /s:c:\i386 /unattend:c:\unattend.txt /syspart:c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brosy Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 create a file called fixboot.regpaste the following text into it:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vds\Alignment]@="Alignment Settings in Bytes""Between4_8GB"=dword:00000000"Between8_32GB"=dword:00000000"GreaterThan32GB"=dword:00000000"LessThan4GB"=dword:00000000now run this command before doing any diskpart steps:reg import fixboot.regthis resolves disk alignment issue with winpe 2.x etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 After you format the drive and before you run winnt32.exe run this command: bootsect /nt52 c: /force Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCoop Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 After you format the drive and before you run winnt32.exe run this command: bootsect /nt52 c: /forceThis is what I use and it works perfectly.On another not regarding the SSSTK. Does anyone use the Statemgr utility from the tool kit? Does it work for you in PE 2.0 and up? I cant get it to work properly. It throws an error and fails to properly register the state in the nvram. Anone have any insights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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