why is smartdrv trying to write to the a drive.

[clivebuckwheat]

I have made a boot cd with smartdrv.exe but everytime I boot with my computer with my cd, smartdrv is trying to write to the A: drive. Obviously it cannot do this because it is a cd. Does anyone know why this is occurring.

SET PATH=A:\NET\;a:\;%PATH%;

lh a:\smartdrv.exe C+ U+ /V 2048 2048

SET TEMP=A:\

SET TCPHELP=A:\NET

SET ETCDIR=A:\NET

A:\NET\NET START

A:\NET\NET.EXE USE U: \\pentium4\UNATTENDED

A:\NET\NET.EXE USE

Edited April 4, 2006 by clivebuckwheat

[VCC]

Dude, read your own post and you should be able to answer that. No insult intended.

You have A: all over the place. So, I'm taking an educated guess that the references you have here are in an Autoexec.bat file? Just try removing all the A: references and leave the backslash (\)

[clivebuckwheat]

thanks i am blind i been looking at this too long

[clivebuckwheat]

I took at all references to a:\ in my autoexec.bat and just did the \ as you suggested. Smartdrv still tries to write a:\ drive.Unfortunately as I stated above it bombs out because the a: is the bootcd.

I have no idea as to why smartdrv is trying to write to a:

[Djé]

Maybe you need to specifically set temp to somewhere smartdrv can write?

I'd try SET TEMP=C:\

My 2 cents.

[clivebuckwheat]

i took out the temp line all together. smartdrv still tries to write to drive a:\

for the life of me i can't solve this problem.

[cancerface]

How about booting from A: with the same autoexec and see what file smartdrv is trying to write/access? Maybe include that file on the CD and then smartdrv will be happy

...

CF

[Djé]

just a few other (bad) ideas:

- Technet also says you don't need to use lh for smartdrv, it is automatic.

- You use the /V option. what does the output says?

- When smartdrv is run , drive U does not exist yet. Does this has any importance?

- My best advice would be to first try an autoexec with only 1 line:

a:\smartdrv.exe

and see what it says.

- Or specifically disabling disk caching for a: :

a:\smartdrv.exe A-

Good luck

[clivebuckwheat]

THANK YOU ALL I will try this things as soon as I get in to work

[VCC]

And if the above does not work. You might give the free version of QSoft RamDisk a try. I found out about it through the use of BartPE.

PS: Have you heard of DiegoStart? It is a disk made with the use of BartPE and it's for installing unattended Windows by booting to the BartPE CD.