NTFS partition converted to RAW
I'm posting this for posterity, in case someone else runs into this issue.
I captured an XP image that I've used with Ghost for years. I used the standard preinstallation tasks and no postinstalltion tasks to deploy the captured image. Everything seemed to go well with the deploy, until the first boot after mini-setup ran. At that point, the Windows XP startup screen would appear for about 10 seconds, then the machine would spontaneously reboot.
After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the primary partition which had been formatted as NTFS was now listed by DISKPART as a RAW partition. The cause of the problem was that my sysprep.inf file had the extendoempartition option enabled. The solution was to simply remove the line "extendOEMPartition=1" from my sysprep.inf.
Hope this helps someone, sometime.
I captured an XP image that I've used with Ghost for years. I used the standard preinstallation tasks and no postinstalltion tasks to deploy the captured image. Everything seemed to go well with the deploy, until the first boot after mini-setup ran. At that point, the Windows XP startup screen would appear for about 10 seconds, then the machine would spontaneously reboot.
After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the primary partition which had been formatted as NTFS was now listed by DISKPART as a RAW partition. The cause of the problem was that my sysprep.inf file had the extendoempartition option enabled. The solution was to simply remove the line "extendOEMPartition=1" from my sysprep.inf.
Hope this helps someone, sometime.
0 Comments
[ + ] Show comments
Answers (1)
Please log in to answer
Rating comments in this legacy AppDeploy message board thread won't reorder them,so that the conversation will remain readable.
