twindude Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 Is there a way to run Diskpart on the unattend side?you have to run this tool at a cmd prompt and with Pyron's way not sure how to do that with an unattend.just wondering how hard that would be or if it's possible?diskpart is a free tool from MS for win2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/new/diskpart-o.asp)
big_gie Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 I think I've already tryed this tool but if I can remember right, it can only be run from windows... so you wont be able to boot from a floppy and run it thrue a batch file...
twindude Posted August 2, 2004 Author Posted August 2, 2004 Pyron's way....http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12566hey big_gie did you get another way to work that you would like to share...?PM me and i'll give you an email address, please?
Alanoll Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 oh that. Well, you posted in the Unattend forum so that got me kinda confused.Are you trying to run it from presetup.cmd? Have you tried fdisk? There is a fdisk like program that is scriptable. But why you would want to format when setup has already copied most of the files over is beyond me.
big_gie Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 The only command line formating tool that could be called from a dos boot disk that I fould was PowerQuest's PQdisk. It's the only command line tool that could format a NTFS drive from dos that I've found...PQdisk is part of Powerquest Deploy Toolkit's wich is part of DeployCenter Library WHICH IS NOT FREE.There may be some open source alternative. Look for the Linux-NTFS Project
twindude Posted August 2, 2004 Author Posted August 2, 2004 Ok..I have a full unatted install that works great.....but the drives are 80Gb so I want to cut them up into 20, 20, 40on the fly as well........before windows start to load to that the first partition is the active one and therefore windows will install in that partition only?
twindude Posted August 2, 2004 Author Posted August 2, 2004 OH, Alanoll"Are you trying to run it from presetup.cmd?"From here would great.........like diskpart or something?Can and How would I add cmd files to run from this location?
Alanoll Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 you'll have to do all the formating and stuff BEFORE you get to that blue screen where it copies all the files.but I'm not sure how to do the cutting.
twindude Posted August 2, 2004 Author Posted August 2, 2004 Yes AlanollI have to do if before the "blue screen" which puts it back at the dos prompt.. i know there are a few tools that say they work but i'm not sure where to put them in at?Can Pyron can you lean a hand to where to put in the cmd's ? Diskpart: will allow me to cut it up and then I'll allow windows to see the first active partition of 20GB only.....then if I have to i'll use windows MMC once the box it up to cut the other two in?Diskpart is a free tool from MS so I can test it if I can find the place where to put the cmd's or add a look at this txt file?
Alanoll Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 Pyron's method is AFTER the blue screen.You're going to need a DOS/LINUX environment to boot into and then start the setup process.Perhaps booting a Win98 disk (you can set it as teh bootsector if you wanted) to control it. But then you can't use DISKPART. You COULD look into Windows PE/ Bart PE. You'll be able to do all the formating there and then start setup (there are posts on the topic) and BartPE is free.
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