arctirus Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 (edited) Yes, I know there are many hacks around this by using existing partitions, going to diskpart etc but is there a way, perhaps via a setting in autounattend.xml or hacking boot.wim so tomfoolery doesn't have to be utilized every time?Also, before someone complains about 100mb not being that much space, it isn't the space I'm concerned about. I want my os partitions and system partitions to be the same. For instance, this causes trouble in Ghost corporate when one only has the option to image a single partition or a whole disk. Edited August 21, 2009 by arctirus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 There's no setting in the unattend to bypass this, at least not one that's documented anywhere in the WAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Why would we need to use such an option to begin with?What is the original uses of making a reseerved partition?Extra MemoryMounting disc ( CD-images etc, dmg files )backup files incase old files get curropted?There is no way possible for the partition of any system to be same. Since the idea of a partition is toliterally create a second piece of disc space. Take defeating the limitations of FAT32 by parting of areas of the drives so that they appear as differnt drives. The only thing I could think of is VIrtual drive. The term used in Alcohol Soft where it creates a virtual DVDdrive with an ulimitive number of options to mount images. If I was you I would just make a regular partition for multiple purpose usage. Then nicknaming itMEMORYBlank_CDBackupI nver heard of a partitian that is one in the same of the same partitian other then a virtual drive like when I load a emulator that creates a file that shows up as a partition but only in the program itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctirus Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Why would we need to use such an option to begin with?Also, before someone complains about 100mb not being that much space, it isn't the space I'm concerned about. I want my os partitions and system partitions to be the same. For instance, this causes trouble in Ghost corporate when one only has the option to image a single partition or a whole disk.There is no way possible for the partition of any system to be same.Oh yeah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviv00 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 before u choose drive in the installationuse diskpart to format it then u wont have 100mb hide drive for the system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Either that or install the OS on a VM, partition as you want, and then sysprep/generalize it and capture it back into a new WIM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctirus Posted August 25, 2009 Author Share Posted August 25, 2009 before u choose drive in the installationuse diskpart to format it then u wont have 100mb hide drive for the systemThat's what I did. I just hoping to find a way so as to not have to do that. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unawave Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Also, before someone complains about 100mb not being that much space, it isn't the space I'm concerned about. I want my os partitions and system partitions to be the same. For instance, this causes trouble in Ghost corporate when one only has the option to image a single partition or a whole disk.Second reason for suppressing this 100 mb partition:Because of the limitation of maximum 4 primary partitions per hard disk this little partition can be in the way. For example: If you have a large hard disk and want to install several operating systems (XP, Vista, Linux and Windows 7).Remark:If you have three for Windows 7 not accessible partitions (e.g. Linux or "hidden" partitions of XP and Vista) then Windows 7 also install the boot manager in last (4th) possible partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviv00 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 (edited) Also, before someone complains about 100mb not being that much space, it isn't the space I'm concerned about. I want my os partitions and system partitions to be the same. For instance, this causes trouble in Ghost corporate when one only has the option to image a single partition or a whole disk.Second reason for suppressing this 100 mb partition:Because of the limitation of maximum 4 primary partitions per hard disk this little partition can be in the way. For example: If you have a large hard disk and want to install several operating systems (XP, Vista, Linux and Windows 7).Remark:If you have three for Windows 7 not accessible partitions (e.g. Linux or "hidden" partitions of XP and Vista) then Windows 7 also install the boot manager in last (4th) possible partition.u could del the partition and fix the boot ? Edited September 24, 2009 by aviv00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) Because of the limitation of maximum 4 primary partitions per hard disk this little partition can be in the way. For example: If you have a large hard disk and want to install several operating systems (XP, Vista, Linux and Windows 7).All four mentioned systems can (and should in mypersonal opinion) be installed on logical volumes inside extended.You only need one primary active partition for the bootloader(s).jaclaz Edited September 25, 2009 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untermensch Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 (edited) Yes, I know there are many hacks around this by using existing partitions, going to diskpart etc but is there a way, perhaps via a setting in autounattend.xml or hacking boot.wim so tomfoolery doesn't have to be utilized every time?Also, before someone complains about 100mb not being that much space, it isn't the space I'm concerned about. I want my os partitions and system partitions to be the same. For instance, this causes trouble in Ghost corporate when one only has the option to image a single partition or a whole disk.I have patched setup to allow just this.fire up a hexeditor and edit winsetup.dll in dvdroot\sources and boot.wim\sourcesafter the mod you will be able to create a whole disk partition during setup bymanualy creating the partition, if you just click next windows will use the defaultpartition layout.32 bitComparing files orig_winsetup.dll and mod_WINSETUP.DLL00077798: 74 EB64 bitComparing files orig_winsetup.dll and MOD_WINSETUP.DLL00084AC4: 74 EBpremoded winsetup.dll herehttp://www.mediafire.com/file/ao423wzdjko/...ed_winsetup.zipdoesnt work with unattended installs, someone better with IDA than me will have to give that a trylook sorta easy if you know assembly. Edited September 28, 2009 by untermensch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxXPsoft Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 (edited) think the most simple is create the part, let it create the 100mb, del the big part and extend the 100mb out to end or wherever you want then format it so it don't say system reservedbut right now i'm not multi booting. Edited October 6, 2009 by maxXPsoft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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