Integrate the RAID drivers with WSIN, and configure UEFI partitions?

• domingo, 8 de abril de 2012 20:47

   

   
  

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  I want to integrate the chipset and mass storage drivers for my brand new Intel x79 system at install time, and set up the partitions and basic directories. I was hoping to make my Windows 7 installation easier by creating an AutoUnattend.xml file. There are a number of “complications” for my hardware:

  1. The mass storage drivers and chipset drivers are not available in my Windows 7 (pre-service-pack) install media.
  2. The system is UEFI, so I need the EFI, the reserved, and the OS partitions on the first drive.
  3. There are multiple drives.

  Using Windows System Image Manager 6, I loaded install.wim, but I could not create a catalog, even though everything is 64bit. I skipped that by copying the “install_Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL.clg” from the DVD. Maybe that is the heart of my problems, but it does not seem so. I created a DistributionShare and a new answer file.

  The next problem seems to be the biggest. I copied the Intel ACHI drivers into Out-of-Box Drivers\AHCI, and created a PathAndCredentials entry for it. But the WinPE installer always stops, and demands that I browse to, and load the mass storage drivers. I believe this is messing up all the subsequent stages of my install attempts. Hence my question, how do I integrate the mass storage drivers at install time?

  After I manually load the iaStor drivers, I get the partitions interface. No matter what I do here, (delete all existing partitions, ignore them, format, any combination of these) the install fails with “Cannot perform operation on partition” or currently, "Windows could not prepare the partition selected for installation". What I WANT, is to wipe both drives, create the correct partitions, and modify the OS and data partitions. I need them to be C and D respectively, or I cannot install applications. I have changed and checked the DriveIds and PartitionIds for my CreatePartition and ModifyPartition items.

   The oddest thing I have discovered is that my first DiskID must be 1, instead of 0, else the install aborts with “Cannot find Drive”. Here is my latest, still failing, configuration, that attempts to modify an existing Drive2 partition.

   
              <DiskConfiguration>
                  <Disk wcm:action="add">
                      <DiskID>1</DiskID>
                      <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                      <CreatePartitions>
                          <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Order>1</Order>
                              <Size>400</Size>
                              <Type>EFI</Type>
                          </CreatePartition>
                          <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Order>2</Order>
                              <Size>128</Size>
                              <Type>MSR</Type>
                          </CreatePartition>
                          <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Order>3</Order>
                              <Extend>true</Extend>
                              <Type>Primary</Type>
                          </CreatePartition>
                      </CreatePartitions>
                      <ModifyPartitions>
                          <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Format>FAT32</Format>
                              <Label>ESP</Label>
                              <Active>true</Active>
                              <Order>1</Order>
                              <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                          </ModifyPartition>
                          <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Order>2</Order>
                              <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                          </ModifyPartition>
                          <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Format>NTFS</Format>
                              <Label>System_WIN_7</Label>
                              <Letter>C</Letter>
                              <Order>3</Order>
                              <PartitionID>3</PartitionID>
                          </ModifyPartition>
                      </ModifyPartitions>
                  </Disk>
                  <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                  <Disk wcm:action="add">
                      <DiskID>2</DiskID>
                      <WillWipeDisk>false</WillWipeDisk>
                      <ModifyPartitions>
                          <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                              <Format>NTFS</Format>
                              <Label>USERS</Label>
                              <Letter>D</Letter>
                              <Order>1</Order>
                              <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                          </ModifyPartition>
                      </ModifyPartitions>
                  </Disk>
              </DiskConfiguration>
  

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  
  

  • Editado Charlweed domingo, 8 de abril de 2012 21:55
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