On 08/11/2011 07:57 AM, Bradley Watson wrote: > Hi All, > Were having a lot of difficulty building a machine based on the newer 4k > sector "512e" drives. > Has anyone run into this issue?
I've installed XP using Unattended on such as machine without any trouble. Did not changed anything about the disk geometry. It was a DELL Precision M6600 with a 320GB drive. The C: was even not starting at the beginning of the disk but after the diag utility partition (about 40MB). > By using the defaults, the machine boots up, but is a corrupted install > (Asking for XP SP3 cd to check system files etc). > > The issue is that the initial creation of the hard disk is with 63 > sectors rather than 64. I have overridden this setting in the unattend.txt > > [_meta] > fix_disk_geo_sectors = "64" > > But when rebooting after copying the files to the FAT32 partition it has > a problem with NT loader cannot boot. What is your hard drive size ? How did you design the initial size of the FAT32 partition with unattended ? I always creates the fat32 with its end < 8GB, and ask Windows to extend it as much as possible while converting fat32 into NTFS filesystem. Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
