Windows 2008 unattended + Vmware Drive issus

[dim]

I am just curious if someone can help me confirm my thoughts.

We have ESX 3.5 environment and we are working on our automated solutions for Windows 2008.

In the initial WinPE pass we format Drive C and Drive D and Drive E per say. Drive D is our pagefile and Drive D is apps and we format that NTFS and change the cdrom driver letter and all the disks show online and everything looks great.

After Windows installs and reboots to start the finishing installation process all the remaining disks other than boot disk appear offline in diskpart. We are only seeing this on Windows 2008 x86.

Windows 2008 x64 works fine.

Can someone please confirm they are seeing this if they have a similiar environment to test with or provide insight.

thanks

dim