Optical Drive Letter Conflict
Greetings,
I am having issues with the optical drive snatching my drive letter D:, preventing my captured Windows 7 image from deploying the system partition (C:) and OS (D:). Is there anyway to run a preinstallation batch file to change anything using d: to another drive letter?
Thank you!
Answers (2)
Use Diskpart to rearrange the drives.
I believe that you can use the Diskpart command to change the drive letter. I've linked a technet article that shows an example of this. Hopefully it will work, Windows is usually pretty picky about it's reserved drive letters
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757491(v=WS.10).aspx
Comments:
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That should work. I worked up the diskpart script:
list volume
select volume c
remove letter=C
select volume d
remove letter=D
select volume e
remove letter=E
select volume f
remove letter=F
The letters are not important to me since my other diskpart script will assign these, but is thourough enoughe where to make sure the potentially needed partition letter assignments are removed. - bostoneo 11 years ago -
Then again, it fails on the first line if the drive letter, for example c:, doesn't exist. Maybe I should make these into different scripts. - bostoneo 11 years ago
Use the following preinstall task something like the following. By using Disk rather than Volume, you should only get hard drives. This is also important when deploying from the USB key. You *must* move the USB key out of the way or you will format it.
select volume d
assign letter=q
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary size=200
select partition=1
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign letter=d
select disk 0
create partition primary
select partition=2
format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=c
exit
