Disable the BDE Partition
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:36 PMHow do you disable the BDE partition from being created with a Lite Touch Windows 2008R2 deployment? I dont want to create the 300MB drive for Bitlocker and can not figure out how to get rid of it.
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Joe
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:45 PMAdd 'DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES' in the CustomSettings.ini
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:51 PM
I did that with no luck. Here is my customsettings.ini
[Settings]
Priority=Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty
DeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER[Default]
OSInstall=Y
DeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER
SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES
SkipCapture=YES
SkipAdminPassword=YES
SkipProductKey=YES
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=Yes
SkipBitlocker=YES
BDERequired=NO
SkipBitLockerDetails=YES
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:57 PMtry disabling the bitlocker task in general in your ts-D
-Dustin -
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:59 PM
I tried that as well. It is disabled.
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:02 PMAre you sure you are using the correct customsettings.ini
Check the log te ensure that it reads the correct customsettings.ini
Update the deployment share. -
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:10 PMI am using the one in "\depoyment\control". I have also updated the share with no luck.
Where can I find the log file at?
Thanks,... -
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:16 PMIt should be under c:\minint\smsosd\osdlogs. Look for the Bdd.log file if possible post your log here hand we can try see whats happening.
If you dont find it on C:\ you may need to start the deployment again. In Windows PE the logs will initially be on the X:\ but will be moved to the C:\ once the drive is partitioned and formated. -
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:27 PMtry
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES
instead of
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=Yes
--> MDT Help says: Caution This property value must be specified in uppercase so that the deployment scripts can read it properly. -
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:30 PMWell spotted Robert I did not see he had it in lower case
That should do the trick -
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:51 PMThanks. I am trying it now. I will update once I am done.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:00 PMMade the change to using all caps, and it still didn't work.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for all your help. -
Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:51 PMThen we will need to see the log it should be on c:\minint\smsosd\osdlogs\bdd.log
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Friday, March 05, 2010 6:02 PMThe parameter is "CASE SENSITIVE". It's like this:
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES
And run an "update" to the deployment share after the change.- Proposed As Answer by wei2ali Friday, March 05, 2010 6:02 PM
- Unproposed As Answer by Keith GarnerMicrosoft Community Contributor, Moderator Friday, March 05, 2010 10:24 PM
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Friday, March 05, 2010 10:27 PMModerator
Appears looking through the code that DoNotCreateExtraPatition is *not* case sensitive.
So we need to see the bdd.log file to see what ZTIDiskPart is doing.
Can you upload the log file to a public location?
Keith Garner (KeithGa.com) - Deployment Consultant - http://deployment.XtremeConsulting.com -
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:17 PMI will be more than happy to upload it.
Where should I upload it to? -
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:11 PM
I know this may sound silly but thought i would ask as sometimes we forget these steps:
edit the customsettings.ini file, update the deployementshare, and if using WDS replace the current boot image with the updated one?
In your bdd.log file you want to look for this line:
DiskPart>Create Partition Primary Size=300
That's your system partition that the setting above is supposed to get rid of.
Also check this line in your log to make sure the proper customsettings.ini is being used:
Using DEFAULT VALUE: Ini file = \\yourserver\share\customsettings.ini -
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:35 AM
I will be more than happy to upload it.
Where should I upload it to?
You can paste the log here -
Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:50 PM
So what have you found, and why do you say that you have to update the storage when changing in customsettings.ini...you dont have todo that..
RDP customer -
Friday, May 07, 2010 11:07 AMI set the settings and it worked like a charm, no problems
RDP customer -
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:38 PMWhat exactly did you do to get it working? I have the problem you describe and have done the same steps but the partition is still being created.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:08 PM
snip from my customsettings.ini
and I dont get the extrapartitions with this. But in remark to this, we only creat MBR disks. So on new hardware, ex IBM that uses UEFI and want to have GPT disks we have enforced to use MBR anyway. We do this by renaming the file bootmgfw.efi under RemoteInstall\Boot\x64. Then the server cannot boot into UEFI PXE and it will not enforce GPT disks..Sorry..this is another topic but can be related to extra partitions..
[Default]
SkipAdminPassword=YES
SkipApplications=YES
SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES
SkipBDDWelcome=YES
SkipBitLocker=YES
SkipCapture=YES
SkipComputerName=YES
SkipComputerBackup=YES
SkipDeploymentType=YES
SkipDomainMembership=YES
SkipFinalSummary=YES
SkipLocaleSelection=YES
SkipPackageDisplay=YES
SkipProductKey=YES
SkipSummary=YES
SkipTaskSequence=YES
SkipTimeZone=YES
SkipUserData=Yes
SkipFinalSummary=YES
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES
FinishAction=REBOOT
RDP customer -
Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:17 PM
I have the exact issue you resolved with disabling the bootmgfw.efi... I have Lenovo 1578H3U desktops. How did you disable it? MDTK 2012 keeps using a GPT partition even though I am telling it to use a MBR. When it does this the system can't boot unless I use a boot dvd which I start my image with and then it gets to Windows no problem and everything is great from there. I tried using EASYBCD to fix it but no good. Every once in a while it does use a MBR partition and everything works perfectly. Where is that path you mentioned?
Eric Laughery System Administrator
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:04 AMOwner
If MDT is creating a GPT disk, it is detecting that the computer has booted in UEFI mode. If this isn't what you want, you will need to turn off UEFI in the computer's BIOS, or choose a non-UEFI boot option when booting the computer.
Thanks, -Michael Niehaus Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit mniehaus@microsoft.com http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:15 AMevery bios is different but you should switch the pci rom priority from efi compatible to legacy
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