Windows cannot parse the unattend answer file's <DiskConfiguration> setting
I know there are many topic asking the same question. But I think my situation is a bit different to the others.
I need to deploy Win7 to client computer by WDS by using unattend file to automate it.
The client computer had C: drive (system) and D: drive (Data) which already exist.
What I want is just wipe the C: partition and deploy Win7 to that partition again, D: partition must be intact.
The current partition ID of the disk is : partition 1 = system reserve, partition 2 = C:, partition 3 = D:
Below is the content of my unattend.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
- <settings pass="windowsPE">
- <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
- <SetupUILanguage>
<UILanguage>zh-cn</UILanguage>
</SetupUILanguage>
<InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>zh-cn</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>zh-cn</UILanguage>
<UILanguageFallback>zh-cn</UILanguageFallback>
<UserLocale>zh-cn</UserLocale>
</component>
- <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
- <DiskConfiguration>
- <Disk wcm:action="add">
- <ModifyPartitions>
- <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Active>true</Active>
<Format>NTFS</Format>
<Label>System</Label>
<Letter>C</Letter>
<Order>2</Order>
<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
<TypeID />
</ModifyPartition>
</ModifyPartitions>
<DiskID>0</DiskID>
<WillWipeDisk>false</WillWipeDisk>
- <CreatePartitions>
- <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Size>81920</Size>
<Order>1</Order>
<Type>Primary</Type>
</CreatePartition>
</CreatePartitions>
</Disk>
<WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
</DiskConfiguration>
- <WindowsDeploymentServices>
- <Login>
- <Credentials>
<Domain>hk.unicom.local</Domain>
<Password>daQ?ewV6</Password>
<Username>administrator</Username>
</Credentials>
</Login>
- <ImageSelection>
- <InstallImage>
<Filename>install.wim</Filename>
<ImageGroup>Win7 Pro 64bit zh-cn</ImageGroup>
<ImageName>Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL</ImageName>
</InstallImage>
- <InstallTo>
<DiskID>0</DiskID>
<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
</InstallTo>
</ImageSelection>
</WindowsDeploymentServices>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:g:/sources/install.wim#Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
June 10th, 2011 3:29am