winpe 3.0 & windows 7 x64

[cyberwatchers]

I am able to take an image by switching to drive d:\. all seems to be working. I am thinking I will have to image the recovery as well (c:\) anyway I am forwarding the screen shot as well. thanks for all the help!

[jaclaz]

I am able to take an image by switching to drive d:\.

I am not sure to get it.

The only thing I cannot see is a drive "d:"

From the posted screenshot:

Drive F:\ is the Removable USB thingy.

Your "main" partition with Drive Letter C:\ and the "Recovery" Partition with Drive Letter E:\.

The Recovery partition is "Active". Why?

Which device did you boot from? The internal hard disk?

jaclaz

[allanf]

I am able to take an image by switching to drive d:.

I am not sure to get it.

The only thing I cannot see is a drive "d:"

Must be referring to "d:" as seen by WinPE 3.0 ... ...

Having the UFD poses another question. Is it seen as a removeable drive in WinPE?

From a clean install of Win7, the system partition (containing Win7 boot files, bitlocker stuff, etc) is hidden and active, but it is seen by WinPE.

Here, an OEM partition is hidden but may still be seen by WinPE.

So the "default order" might be:

E: (active system partition) becomes c: in WinPE

F: (removable) becomes d: ... not sure about this one!

No letter (OEM partition, assuming it is the first non-active primary and is seen by WinPE) becomes e:

C: (boot partition with OS files, assuming it is a later primary) becomes f:

@cyberwatchers. Still a few questions. In WinPE, can you do a "diskpart: select disk 0, list vol, list part"? Right click cmd-window title bar, mark and copy the cmd-line output. Exit diskpart, start notepad and paste the output into notepad txt file and save the .txt to a known partition? Then post the text here? If you have time that is.

[cyberwatchers]

Yes I ment to do that today while in the office and forgot. I will do that tomorrow.

[allanf]

Yes I ment to do that today while in the office and forgot. I will do that tomorrow.

Thx. I'm interested to see how it looks.

[jaclaz]

May I suggest we start talking "letter neutral" (it may help in understanding which is which).

From the screenshot there is a FIRST DISK (Disk 0) with three partitions in it.

Can we start calling them:

(0,0) Hidden 7 install partition 196 Mb NTFS NO drive letter assigned

(0,1) Recovery partition 750 Mb NTFS letter E: assigned when booted "normally"

(0,2) Main partition 232 Gb NTFS letter C: assigned when booted "normally"

SECOND DISK (USB stick) with one partition

(1,0) 1,47 Gb FAT32 letter F: assigned when booted "normally"

As said, the problem seems to me ONLY due to the fact that (0,1) is Active.

When the PC was setup, surely (0,1) was NOT active, and most probably also hidden, thus on install the scan went:

(0,0) Fixed->Hidden -> Ignore
(0,1) Fixed->Hidden -> Ignore
(0,2) Fixed->First Primary Active -> assign C:\
(1,0) Removable->NOT PRESENT -> Ignore
CD/DVD Removable-> D:\

When the Recovery partition was unhidden, it got next letter, E:\

When you insert the stick, it gets F:\.

Please note how even if the Recovery partition was NOT hidden (but NOT active), lettering would have been the same:

(0,0) Fixed->Hidden->Ignore
(0,1) Fixed->Primary NOT Active-> Ignore
(0,2) Fixed->First Primary Active -> assign C:\
(1,0) Removable->NOT PRESENT -> Ignore
CD/DVD Removable-> D:\

Another OS, a "new kid on the block" assigning letters to the drives, with Recovery partition Active:

(0,0) Fixed->Hidden->Ignore
(0,1) Fixed->Primary Active -> assign C:\
(0,2) Fixed->Primary NOT  Active ->Ignore
(1,0) Fixed->NOT PRESENT -> Ignore
CD/DVD Removable-> D:\
(0,2) Removable->Primary NOT  Active ->assign E:\

But if the stick was inserted (as boot media), lettering should be:

(0,0) Fixed->Hidden->Ignore
(0,1) Fixed->Primary Active -> assign C:\
(0,2) Fixed->Primary NOT  Active ->Ignore
(1,0) Removable->Primary Active -> assign D:\
CD/DVD Removable-> E:\
(0,2) Fixed->Primary NOT  Active ->assign F:\

jaclaz

[cyberwatchers]

Okay sorry did not get back to the forum yesterday the ski was falling and people needed things "ASAP" you know the deal. I am forwarding the diskpart .txt you asked about.

diskpart.txt

[allanf]

Okay sorry did not get back to the forum yesterday the ski was falling and people needed things "ASAP" you know the deal. I am forwarding the diskpart .txt you asked about.

DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 OEM 196 MB 31 KB
Partition 2 Primary 750 MB 197 MB
Partition 3 Primary 231 GB 947 MB

Thanks. How about "list volume" to show how the drive letters are assigned?

And "select disk 1", "list partition", "list volume" for the UFD?

That is - as soon as you manage to stop the sky from falling.

Edited December 11, 2009 by allanf

[jaclaz]

That is - as soon as you manage to stop the sky from falling.

The trick is knowing that tomorrow never comes :

http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-2220.html

jaclaz