[Heidi Linda]

I've been asked to implement something which I thought sounded fairly
simple - we don't want to remove the hard drives from our boxes in order to
install the OS, so the plan was to remote boot the units to a minimal image
(thanks Brad for pointing out my idiocy on that part) and from there to use
Diskpart to clean and partition the drive and assign it a drive letter.
However, whenever I try to do this, if I am starting from a blank disk, I
get to the point of assigning a drive letter and then get the message
"Diskpart cannot reassign the drive letter on a system, boot or pagefile
volume" and if I am not starting with a blank disk, I cannot clean the
drive, getting the message "The selected disk is neccessary to the operation
of your computer, and may not be cleaned."
Is there a way around this?

[KM]

Heidi,

Have you tried cleaning up [HKLM\System\MountedDevices] key just before you capture the image into SDI file?

Also, keep in mind that C: drive letter is hardcoded in RAMDisk driver so you cannot use it.

--
KM,
BSquare Corp.
www.bsquare.com


> I've been asked to implement something which I thought sounded fairly
> simple - we don't want to remove the hard drives from our boxes in order to
> install the OS, so the plan was to remote boot the units to a minimal image
> (thanks Brad for pointing out my idiocy on that part) and from there to use
> Diskpart to clean and partition the drive and assign it a drive letter.
> However, whenever I try to do this, if I am starting from a blank disk, I
> get to the point of assigning a drive letter and then get the message
> "Diskpart cannot reassign the drive letter on a system, boot or pagefile
> volume" and if I am not starting with a blank disk, I cannot clean the
> drive, getting the message "The selected disk is neccessary to the operation
> of your computer, and may not be cleaned."
> Is there a way around this?

[Heidi Linda]

No I hadn't tried that, and I wasn't trying to use c:

"KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:efIWj71cFHA.892@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Heidi,
>
> Have you tried cleaning up [HKLM\System\MountedDevices] key just before
you capture the image into SDI file?
>
> Also, keep in mind that C: drive letter is hardcoded in RAMDisk driver so
you cannot use it.
>
> --
> KM,
> BSquare Corp.
> www.bsquare.com
>
>
> > I've been asked to implement something which I thought sounded fairly
> > simple - we don't want to remove the hard drives from our boxes in order
to
> > install the OS, so the plan was to remote boot the units to a minimal
image
> > (thanks Brad for pointing out my idiocy on that part) and from there to
use
> > Diskpart to clean and partition the drive and assign it a drive letter.
> > However, whenever I try to do this, if I am starting from a blank disk,
I
> > get to the point of assigning a drive letter and then get the message
> > "Diskpart cannot reassign the drive letter on a system, boot or pagefile
> > volume" and if I am not starting with a blank disk, I cannot clean the
> > drive, getting the message "The selected disk is neccessary to the
operation
> > of your computer, and may not be cleaned."
> > Is there a way around this?
>
>

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Heidi,

There are few types of problems here involved that we solved in this NG before:
First if you see HDD volume letters in install (remote booted XPe) then you don't need to reassign them, you can deploy XPe on let
us say E: and when you boot from HDD this will actually be C:.

As you know volume letter are assigned separately for each XPe OS in their registry either you can do that from TD or just let
PnP/FBA do it during the install phase.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx

Regarding the inability to reassign volume letters this problem you should look in following threads.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded/search?group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded&q=SystemPartition&qt_g=1

Solution was among other things related to deleting registry entry SystemPartition.


Regards,
Slobodan


"Heidi Linda" <heidi.linda@inspiredbroadcast.net> wrote in message news:uMyhR%231cFHA.3280@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> No I hadn't tried that, and I wasn't trying to use c:
>
> "KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:efIWj71cFHA.892@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Heidi,
> >
> > Have you tried cleaning up [HKLM\System\MountedDevices] key just before
> you capture the image into SDI file?
> >
> > Also, keep in mind that C: drive letter is hardcoded in RAMDisk driver so
> you cannot use it.
> >
> > --
> > KM,
> > BSquare Corp.
> > www.bsquare.com
> >
> >
> > > I've been asked to implement something which I thought sounded fairly
> > > simple - we don't want to remove the hard drives from our boxes in order
> to
> > > install the OS, so the plan was to remote boot the units to a minimal
> image
> > > (thanks Brad for pointing out my idiocy on that part) and from there to
> use
> > > Diskpart to clean and partition the drive and assign it a drive letter.
> > > However, whenever I try to do this, if I am starting from a blank disk,
> I
> > > get to the point of assigning a drive letter and then get the message
> > > "Diskpart cannot reassign the drive letter on a system, boot or pagefile
> > > volume" and if I am not starting with a blank disk, I cannot clean the
> > > drive, getting the message "The selected disk is neccessary to the
> operation
> > > of your computer, and may not be cleaned."
> > > Is there a way around this?
> >
> >
>
>