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WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 10 Jan 2014, 00:18
von SisterOfMercy
I finally had to start with preparing windows 7 for deployment. This is because of a few laptops with a broken bios (yay, asus
) and the possibility the security updates for XP x64 will end in 2014 and not in 2015, like other NT5.2 operating systems.
Well, I'm well underway with my customisation package and beating it into submission. A lot of the settings have not changed since XP, so a lot of the XP x64 customisation package can be reused. I find myself deploying more and more SSDs, in my not so humble opinion windows 7 without an SSD is a very bad idea. So anyway, harddisk space is limited.
Is there any reason not to extend the windows partition to include the space reserved for the WinPE partition? I was planning on using this:
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"%SystemRoot%\system32\diskpart.exe" /s "%ScriptPath%\files\extendscript.txt"
where extendscript.txt contains this:
Or can I safely set the WinPE partition to 0 MB in configed, because it is only used for special situations?
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 10 Jan 2014, 13:43
von Fochlac
Hei,
This partition usually contains the boot manager and is used to support the BitLocker encryption system and is generally only created, if there is no other partition on the drive. Removing it after the installation or shrinking it is generally a bad idea as it can cause a number of problems later on. However, if you partition the disk before installing Windows you can avoid it being created.
More detail
here.
All the best,
Fochlac
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 11 Jan 2014, 01:30
von SisterOfMercy
This is not the 100 MB boot manager partition. This is the WinPE partition, made by OPSI.
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 13 Jan 2014, 08:43
von wolfbardo
SisterOfMercy hat geschrieben:
Is there any reason not to extend the windows partition to include the space reserved for the WinPE partition?
The Winpe-partition should be removed after the os-install by a opsi-postinstscript created from the setup.py. If not, there is something broken from your changes to the unattend.xml.
Have a look at the getting started about the unattend.xml
Take in a first step the template from opsi and then change carefully the custom unattend.xml
Otherwise the opsi-postinst-scripts, opsi-client-agent-install, partitions-settings ... might be broken
regards,
bardo wolf
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 14 Jan 2014, 01:58
von SisterOfMercy
wolfbardo hat geschrieben:The Winpe-partition should be removed after the os-install by a opsi-postinstscript created from the setup.py. If not, there is something broken from your changes to the unattend.xml.
Yes, blame me
Well, if I look at the 80_repartition.cmd in the opsi/postinst.d/ directory, it looks like it executes diskpart with this script (diskpart.txt), but that doesn't seem to do much:
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 14 Jan 2014, 08:16
von wolfbardo
ok,
wolfbardo hat geschrieben:The Winpe-partition should be removed after the os-install by a opsi-postinstscript created from the setup.py. If not, there is something broken from your changes to the unattend.xml.
is to sloppy.
Look at the setup.py (The Winpe-partition should be removed after the os-install by a opsi-postinstscript which uses the diskpart.txt which is patched from the setup.py. )
regards,
bardo wolf
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 16 Jan 2014, 15:57
von SisterOfMercy
from setup.py
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# Create diskpart.txt
logger.notice(u"Creating diskpart.txt")
f = open(target + '/opsi/diskpart.txt', 'w')
print >> f, "list disk\r"
print >> f, "select disk 0\r"
print >> f, "list partition\r"
print >> f, "list volume\r"
print >> f, "select partition %d\r" % winpePartitionNumber
print >> f, "delete partition noerr override\r"
if dataPartitionCreate:
print >> f, "select partition %d\r" % (winpePartitionNumber - 1)
print >> f, "extend\r"
if bootPartitionNumber and bootPartitionHidden:
print >> f, "select volume %s\r" % bootPartitionLetter
print >> f, "remove letter=%s\r" % bootPartitionLetter
print >> f, "exit\r"
f.close()
Ah, I'm not using a data partition, that's probably why the partition did not get extended, right?
Re: WinPE partition after installation
Verfasst: 28 Jan 2014, 18:32
von d.oertel
Hi,
hmm - looks like a bug - I will think about it and opened therefore an internal ticket ...
regards
d.oertel