diskpart commands

[darksimoon]

hello friends;

its me again i have a problem about diskpart usage in winpe 2.0.

i'm trying to install win xp unattended from UFD by winpe 2.0. My autorun1.cmd and error picture (saying that:the directory is not empty) is as below.

pls can you tell me what is wrong.

partinfo.txt

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select disk 1

select volume 0

assign letter=U

select disk 0

clean

create partition primary size=10000

active

assign letter=C

format fs=ntfs label="SYSTEM" quick

create partition primary

assign letter D:

format fs=ntfs label="DATA" quick

exit

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[jaclaz]

I guess you cannot format a partition unless you select it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928543/en-us

http://www.ss64.com/nt/diskpart.html

Maybe you miss lines:

select partition n

Or maybe you still have the first partition "in focus" when you try to create the second, and you need another "select disk 0"....

Rule of the thumb whenever a script does not work is to try the commands in it one by one manually, so that you can see which one throws the error....

jaclaz

Edited November 28, 2008 by jaclaz

[darksimoon]

hello jaclaz

as you mentioned i used diskpart command in a virtual machine in at winpe and here is the strange result.

i used the below command in turn and succesfully.

sel disk 0

clean

cre par pri size=10000

active

assign letter= W

it seems that when i wanted to assign letter C it give me error i speak of above (directory is not empty). bu if i assign any other letter except for C, it is assigned succesfully. meanwhile in order to see if letter C is in use or not i use list volume command but C is not in use i am confused anybody help me ?

Edited November 28, 2008 by darksimoon

[TheReasonIFail]

From the error I see, it seems you're already at a C:\ prompt.

It seems that the problem is that the C letter is already assigned to a drive.

Edited November 28, 2008 by TheReasonIFail

[darksimoon]

hi TheReasonIFail

i have checked the letters by list volume but it wasnt assigned. just a moment... yes you are right ! i am in C:\ prompt but when i list the volumes i cannot see the letter C. but why ? if C was ram drive i would understand but its not. so can you tell me where the letter C is assigned to ?

[TheReasonIFail]

It's possible that the drive existed when you navigated to it through the command prompt.

Try changing to another drive letter so you're not at a c:\ prompt and try again.

[darksimoon]

thank you for your reply.