dewin Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hello, i'm new at SmartDeploy, can someone tell me how to automate 2 partitions on the destination PC? I thinking of diskpart but how can i merge the command into the unattended file? Please help Thanks dewin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hello Dewin, There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. The easiest is to setup the virtual reference machine with the same partitioning that you would like on the target machine. For example if you are installing Windows XP and would like to have a second partition for data you can create your VM in this manner and then capture the image. The other option would be to use a pre-image task to run a script to automate the creation of the 2nd partition.To run a task you simply boot the target machine to SmartPE, then select advanced from the Deployment Wizard. From here you will see the tasks tab which allows you to call the script and select a phase of deployment for it to run. Below is an example VBScript that will create a two partition drive, the first partition will be 80GB and the second will be the remainder of the drive. You will need to make the script available in the boot media by using Media Wizard. Then you will need to create a task to run the script in the pre-image phase. Also be sure to select Wipe & Load drives in the Deploy Wizard or the entire disk will be cleaned and re-partitioned. OPTION EXPLICIT Dim oShell, Instance, oExec, intPhysicalDiskSize : intPhysicalDiskSize = 0 Dim blnFormatD : blnFormatD = True Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") For Each Instance In GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE DeviceID = '\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0'") intPhysicalDiskSize = Instance.Size Next If intPhysicalDiskSize > 1 Then Set oExec = oShell.Exec("diskpart.exe") oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "select disk 0" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "clean" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "create partition primary size=80000" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "select partition 1" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "active" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "assign letter=c" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "create partition primary" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "assign letter=w" oExec.StdIn.WriteLine "exit" Do While Not oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream If InStr(oExec.StdOut.ReadLine, "could not assign") Then blnFormatD = False Loop Set oExec = Nothing oShell.Run "cmd.exe /c format c: /fs:ntfs /q /y", 0, True If blnFormatD Then oShell.Run "cmd.exe /c format w: /fs:ntfs /q /y", 0, True End If Set oShell = Nothing Thanks, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewin Posted February 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Thanks Erik it works great ! Gr dewin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnazari Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Erik, How do you label the volumes within that script, so when the OS deployment is done the drives are labeled? Thanks, Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnazari Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 So I found another solution: 1. Create a text file and name it 2Partitions.txt 2. Paste the following commands and save it list disk select disk 0 clean create partition primary size=100000 select partition 1 format quick fs=ntfs label="OSDisk" assign letter=C active create partition primary select partition 2 format quick fs=ntfs label="DATA" assign letter=D list vol exit Please note: Create a text file and name it 2Partitions.txt --> You can name the file to whatever you like Create partition primary size=100000 --> This line will create the first partition of size 100GB. You can change the size to whatever you wish as long as the hard drive can handle Create partition primary --> This line will create the second partition using the rest or remaining space on the drive 3. Now, how to run this script in Windows PE environment. Follow the steps bellow. 4. Boot to SmartDeploy media. 5. Click the link at the bottom of the Welcome screen to launch a Windows PE command prompt. 6. At the prompt key in:diskpart /s 2Psartitions.txt 7. In my case it will look like this: X:\Windows\System32>diskpart /s E:\Script\2Partitions.txt. 8. All the diskpart commands output will display on the screen 8. E drive is the bootable SmartDeploy Media Hope this will help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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