Altiris WinPE Deployment Issue

[adamruston]

Hope this is in the correct group...

I am using Altiris 6.5 Console to deploy Windows XP SP2 using WinPE
2005.

When I boot up into WinPE Automation (from RAMDisk) I cannot see my
system drive? ie I would like to copy folders to C:\WINDOWS before
Sysprep runs using a VBscript but cannot access it??!...

In WinPE the drives are allocated as follows:

C: (name: BOOTWORKS) I think this is the MINNT directory? Has a PE iso
file in there and some other files.

X: This is the WinPE directory with i386 folder, etc.

If I reboot into normal Windows, everything is correct??

I need to be able to access the C Drive in WinPE? Any ideas??

Thanks

 

[Guest]

what about trying to post that issue here

http://forums.altiris.com/

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

You need to add the mass storage device drivers to WinPE.

Altiris is using the diskdriver folder (in system32) for this together
with winpeoem.sif


regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment

 

[adamruston]

Thank you Johan,

Altiris RDeploy can still lay down the image to the hard drive thought,
does this still sound like the explanation?

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Nope, If altiris can lay down the image file the drivers should be
correct, however, the altiris imaging software does not add a
driveletter until rebooted...

You can try adding a script directly after the image laydown that runs
diskpart and assigns a drive letter to the volume (this works when
using both ghost and pqideploy in winpe so it should work with altiris
as well)


regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment