I have been doing alot of reading and yet have to find a solution. i am new to trying to automate disk partitioning ant clean install of windows 8.1. so far this is what aI have maged by using a createpartitions.txt file containing the following where windows is installed to the 100GB partition on an mbr disk. please help me figure out the proper modifications to ResetConfig.xml and settingsRE.txt for MBR disk and or GPT im at a loss or point to some more reading to better understand what to do. My objective: 1 to automate disk partitioning. 2 have windows 100gb part. plus a DATA partition using the rest of the drive. 3 to have working oem recovery partition. Is this possible? Any help well appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sorry. createpartitions.txt : SELECT DISK 0 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=1000 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECOVERY SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=R CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=100000 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=WINDOWS ASSIGN LETTER=W CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=DATA ASSIGN LETTER=S SHRINK DESIRED=20000 MINIMUM=20000 CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECIMAGE SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=I
Got it working with help from the OEM-Factory-recovery-image-creator-for-Windows thread using the following files. CreatePartitions.txt: SELECT DISK 0 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=1000 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECOVERY SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=R CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=150 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=FAT32 QUICK LABEL=SYSTEM ASSIGN LETTER=S CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=102400 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=WINDOWS ASSIGN LETTER=W CREATE PARTITION EXTENDED CREATE PARTITION LOGICAL FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=DATA ASSIGN LETTER=Z SHRINK DESIRED=20480 MINIMUM=20480 CREATE PARTITION LOGICAL SIZE=20480 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECIMAGE SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=I ========================================================================= ResetPartitions.txt CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=1000 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECOVERY SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=R CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=150 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=FAT32 QUICK LABEL=SYSTEM ASSIGN LETTER=S CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=102400 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=WINDOWS ASSIGN LETTER=W CREATE PARTITION EXTENDED CREATE PARTITION LOGICAL FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=DATA ASSIGN LETTER=Z SHRINK DESIRED=20480 MINIMUM=20480 CREATE PARTITION LOGICAL SIZE=20480 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECIMAGE SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=I =============================================================== ResetConfig.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Reset> <SystemDisk> <DiskpartScriptPath>ResetPartitions.txt</DiskpartScriptPath> <MinSize>75000</MinSize> <WindowsREPartition>1</WindowsREPartition> <WindowsREPath>Recovery\WindowsRE</WindowsREPath> <OSPartition>3</OSPartition> <RecoveryImagePartition>4</RecoveryImagePartition> <RecoveryImagePath>RecoveryImage</RecoveryImagePath> <RestoreFromIndex>1</RestoreFromIndex> <RecoveryImageIndex>1</RecoveryImageIndex> </SystemDisk> </Reset> ============================================================ SettingsRE.txt: DISKID=0 RECOVERYPART=1 RECOVERYLETTER=R SYSTEMPART=2 SYSTEMLETTER=S WINDOWSPART=3 WINDOWSLETTER=W DATAPART=4 DATALETTER=Z IMAGEPART=5 IMAGELETTER=I LANG=EN-US WINLOAD=WINLOAD.EXE BOOTFS=NTFS ==================================================== Installed and created recovery partition and restored fine. keeping Windows on a 100GB partition primary and Data on extended Logical partition taking up the remainder of the space.
Great. I did make a mistake before about the removing size setting. Should have read through better & seen you were making a data partition too! Doh!