Ooops. Sent to Matt only before I think... Doh! Anyway, I've already tried erasing the disk completely (well the first part anyway). Didn't help.
I've now also tried choosing the 12G c:, rest d: option in unattended's initial setup part and leaving the format_cmd option out of my unattended.txt and letting unattended make it up for itself. Didnt work. This time however, I did get a very different partition layout since I didnt force my own fdisk command. This time I got a 4GB FAT32 primary set active followed by 8GB blank, and then a ~45GB NTFS primary partition (which I assume is not formatted). I gather this is how it's supposed to turn out, and the C partition is modified later to make the size correct. Anyway, looks like I'll be ghosting these instead, which kind of sucks (takes just as long, plus I also have to manually add drivers, join domains and rename and stuff). Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes I run into a problem using unattended on a machine that is > formatted with FAT32, but I have found a solution that may work for you. > > The symptoms I see are that when the script gets to the point where the > newly created partition is formatted, I get a screen full of "error writing > sector" messages (or some similar message). When this happened, I tried to > remove the primary partition, and have unattended re-create it, but I still > got the same error message. I'm not sure what causes it, but I suspect it > may have something to do with the MBR. > I fix it by running DBAN (Darik's boot and Nuke) and completely erase the > first 1% of the disk, then I reboot. This totally destroys the partition > table and MBR, and then unattended works OK. > > That might help in your case, however, you might not want to do that if you > have a diagnostics partition on your hard disk. In fact, I don't know if > DBAN would work on an SATA drive (If that is what you are using). > > > ----- Forwarded by Matt Fries/cbca on 07/26/2006 08:25 AM ----- > > Falko Trojahn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tim Bates > Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: > rceforge.net [email protected] > Subject: Re: > [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - > 07/26/2006 03:11 AM Nooooo!!!!! > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Tim, > > >> Unfortunately this version still didn't work. And we already have the >> format line there. >> I just did another run, but this time edited the doit.bat before it "did >> it". I took the last line off so setup didnt start, then I continued. I >> saw the format happen, then as expected, I dropped to a DOS style >> prompt. Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and the laptop rebooted, and I started up my >> favorite partition manager. >> > At this point, you can do e.g. Alt-F2 and then > parted /dev/dsk print > to see what's on. > > >> It lists one ~60GB FAT32 partition as a primary and active. >> > Well, this means there's nothing at all done since after > partitioning with unattended there _must_ be an active primary 4GB > Fat32 on first position and - as you like - any other partition > after the free space which is resized within Windows setup process. > > >> The MBR has an unknown IPL (which I assume is the FreeDOS one). >> There are no errors listed anywhere... >> BUT - There is more than 600MB used on that partition apparently. This >> shouldn't be the case since the format should have removed it. I have a >> suspicion that the format isn't happening for some reason. >> > No partitioning, no formatting I assume. Perhaps you could send the > used unattend.txt/config.pl/[unattend.csv], keys stripped off, of > course. > > Or, you could try my setup which is described here: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=19294502 > > Again, we need a solution to log the details of the unattended setup > process and of the pc if it comes to problems ... > > Good luck, > Falko > > - -- > Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 > Dipl.-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 > SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH > www.smi-softmark.de > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBRMcju4kcY98goEs/AQLxqQf+PWtFyyzybzeydVbskJrTfWWVUNeZGioO > CcZAt4iBfQpZp82aAtoBcfd1h8h9wV+fjlz8zYr4ccbwE3g6v2+IlRwzuerEGBeJ > Uy3Obvka7/Bo25TTNWmaFzolKN4Y6CoQ7njAlBa6K5LJVaJzKLjHr9S77ZyT2VBg > XDqcu/uo2XfbnazD6AYiJNQUndiAKe5ypsCNMsWACJUimtXQcf6/6m8O3tbUAToB > bTIsxXKAXy9AZG8Yj7UGUrll5gCoGFWqwo6M/RABELgVvug31sb/Pm4PTzLOut6q > ydnCRMHx6nOMjoQkXiOlhEfvvTMU1HlHDNMjhRU8rKbnnn0l1M8LEQ== > =9Rdo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. 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