KACE Product Support

I was just wondering if anyone had any luck recreating the dell diagnostics partition on a blank hard drive. I have looked around here on appdeploy and read through some articles in the Kace knowledgebase, but have not found a way to recreate it. I am able to “save” the partition when reimaging it if exists, and I can recreate the blank partition using disk part, but I am unable to make it functional.

My disk part script does something close to :

select disk 0
clean
create partition primary id=DE size=78
select partition 1
format fs=fat quick

I then created a preinstallation task to xcopy all of the files back onto the partition. I also tired assigning it a letter and creating a kimage of it. Either way it appears to have the files it needs on it but the bios doesn’t recognize it as a diagnostics partition. If you attempt to run the on board diagnostics it says the diagnostics partition is not found. If I use the dell utility to recreate the partition it is able to install the files on the partition I created with disk part. If I use the dell utility it works great, the only problem is I haven’t found a way to automate it.

I realize the diagnostics it provides aren’t the best, but it is nice to have them built in. Nearly all of our systems are laptops and our helpdesk likes to use them to trouble shoot remote systems. It gives them a nice starting point.

Anyone have any ideas of what I should try? Thanks in advance.