problem with unattended answer file

Question

hi all,

i'm trying to make an unattended install from an answer file, but some how im stock in diskconfiguration right now.

- <DiskConfiguration>

  <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>

- <Disk wcm:action="add">

- <CreatePartitions>

- <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">

  <Type>Primary</Type>

  <Order>1</Order>

  <Size>15000</Size>

  </CreatePartition>

  </CreatePartitions>

- <ModifyPartitions>

- <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">

  <Order>1</Order>

  <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>

  <Label>Harddisk</Label>

  <Letter>C</Letter>

  <Format>NTFS</Format>

  <Active>true</Active>

  <TypeID>Primary</TypeID>

  <Extend>false</Extend>

  </ModifyPartition>

  </ModifyPartitions>

  <DiskID>0</DiskID>

  <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>

  </Disk>

  </DiskConfiguration>

I can't see the problem in these lines.

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Answer 1

Is there some error report that you can share?

Have you tried create the unattended file using ICE?

-Sean

 

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Answer 2

Do you want to create a new partition or use an existing one? You only need to use ModifyPartition for an existing one. Here is a snippet of some settings we use.

            <DiskConfiguration>
                <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Label>System</Label>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <!-- set partition to not be active - to preserve boot menu -->
                            <Active>false</Active>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <WillWipeDisk>false</WillWipeDisk>
                </Disk>
            </DiskConfiguration>
            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallFrom>
                        <MetaData wcm:action="add">
                            <Key>Image/Name</Key>
                            <Value>Windows Embedded Standard 7</Value>
                        </MetaData>
                    </InstallFrom>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>

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Brent

Answer 3

hi, got it to work, I had forgot to set the TypeID to 0x7 for Primary disk

 

-John

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