DISKPART-like utility for Windows NT?

[Guest Taed Wynnell]

We have a large number of remote Windows NT Server systems that we want to

wipe clean and replace with a Windows Server 2003 disk image. To do that,

we were considering doing something like:

-- Create a new bootable partition

-- Copy a WinPE disk image into it

-- Mark the WinNT partition as not bootable

-- Reboot the system, thus booting into WinPE

-- Delete the old WinNT disk partition

-- Create a new Win2003 disk partition

-- Copy the disk image into the Win2003 disk partition

-- Reboot and we're done!

 

We've done the latter steps previously, so we're not bothered by the WinPE

work.

 

But to get there, we need to be able to create a new bootable partition from

within WinNT itself. I can't seem to find a standard WinNT DISKPART-like

command-line tool to do that.

 

Does anyone know of such a tool? I found AEFDISK32, but I want to see what

all my options are.

 

Does anyone have a better way of doing what I'm after? Note that we're not

using a "setup" image -- it's a raw disk image that will be personalized in

other ways.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Guest John John]

Re: DISKPART-like utility for Windows NT?

 

You might get some ideas in the articles here:

 

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/693a69342abd4bc3/dc589b4602ff8eef?lnk=st&q=&rnum=3#dc589b4602ff8eef

 

I'm not too sure why you want or need to do this partition work from

within NT.

 

John

 

Taed Wynnell wrote:

> We have a large number of remote Windows NT Server systems that we want to

> wipe clean and replace with a Windows Server 2003 disk image. To do that,

> we were considering doing something like:

> -- Create a new bootable partition

> -- Copy a WinPE disk image into it

> -- Mark the WinNT partition as not bootable

> -- Reboot the system, thus booting into WinPE

> -- Delete the old WinNT disk partition

> -- Create a new Win2003 disk partition

> -- Copy the disk image into the Win2003 disk partition

> -- Reboot and we're done!

>

> We've done the latter steps previously, so we're not bothered by the WinPE

> work.

>

> But to get there, we need to be able to create a new bootable partition from

> within WinNT itself. I can't seem to find a standard WinNT DISKPART-like

> command-line tool to do that.

>

> Does anyone know of such a tool? I found AEFDISK32, but I want to see what

> all my options are.

>

> Does anyone have a better way of doing what I'm after? Note that we're not

> using a "setup" image -- it's a raw disk image that will be personalized in

> other ways.

>

> Thanks in advance!

>

>