When I experience problems like this, I usually wipe the first 2-3% of the
disk using DBAN, which REALLY erases the MBR, and the partition table.
Then the unattended install works fine. This might be what you are seeing.
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I believe that it may be a problem with writing the MBR. I tried using
fdisk to partition it and it showed that I had partitioned the whole drive
(100%) as C: and therefore should easily have enough space to install
windows. Upon continuing the installation however, I received the same
error saying it could not find a drive with enough space.
This leads me to believe that there is a problem writing the MBR and
therefore it is not showing the drive correctly to the Windows installer.
What file (or where in a file) would rewriting the MBR be located? And
what should I look for to know if it is working correctly? I have
replaced the entire contents of “install” and it does not seem to make a
difference and have tried using different setup CDs with no success.
Thanks,
Alex
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To be a little more specific, when I select option #3 to “Format Whole
Disk” its only formatting 4001MB instead of the whole 40GB hard drive. Any
ideas why its suddenly started to do this?
Thanks,
Alex Moon
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:26 PM
To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Unattended] setup disk size error
Hey there,
For some reason I am getting an error with windows setup when I try to
perform an installation. Basically I will go through all the unattended
options and get everything setup and ready to go. However when windows
inspects the system before it gets ready to copy setup files, it says that
the disk needs to have XXXXXMB available and I only have XXXXX available.
This just started happening and beforehand I was able to run a complete
installation through unattended fine. I have used the same system to test
unattended probably a hundred times and this just started happening on
both this system and another that I tried. I know that the hard drive is
big enough and I partitioned/formatted/”rewrote mbr” as I always have
done. Any ideas what may have gone wrong? I was thinking it may be an
unattended setup file that maybe got deleted or edited somehow but I don’t
know where to start looking.
Thanks much,
Alex Moon
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