ZTI Diskpart partition action hangs

D1Artagnan

Has this issue been resolved by Microsoft yet? I'm experiencing the problem
on most of my DELL Optiplex GX620 and 745 models

"BDDAdmin" wrote:

> On Jul 17, 9:52 am, Crashball <>
> wrote:
> > Anyone else deploying XP with BDD 2007? from what i have heard it probably
> > isn't an issue with Vista, but i 'm not really to that point yet. Any other
> > input from the BDD guys? I'm getting desperate here.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Crashball" wrote:
> > > No dice. I upped it to 2 minutes and no change. It does work if there are no
> > > existing partitions. If i am at a labshell prompt and try and go to the c
> > > drive, it says it is not a valid drive. If i reboot and check again, the
> > > Previous partition with C: content is still there. checking taskmgr during
> > > this shows diskpart.exe and dmadmin.exe running but nothing is using any CPU.
> >
> > > "Tim Mintner (MS)" wrote:
> >
> > > > It's a timing issue on some disks and probably due to the performance of
> > > > some of the virtual machines.
> >
> > > > The ztidiskpart.wsf has a sleep in it to account for that but on some
> > > > machines it just isn't long enough.
> >
> > > > Change this line in ztidiskpart.wsf
> >
> > > > WScript.Sleep 5000
> >
> > > > Change it to something like 10000 for a 10 sec delay or 30000 for a 30 sec
> > > > delay.
> >
> > > > "Crashball" <> wrote in message
> > > >news:...
> > > > > Saw someone in the SMS Tools have this issue also, so at least i am not
> > > > > alone.
> >
> > > > > I am testing BDD 2007 ZTI on mainly Virtual Machines and Dell D600s and I
> > > > > can not get the Partition action to complete on its own. It just hangs
> > > > > there
> > > > > for hours if i let it. Sometime if i go to the labshell and click the
> > > > > mouse
> > > > > or manually go into diskpart, it will start up again, but not
> > > > > consistently.
> > > > > If i look at taskmgr, diskpart is running. if i maunally do the steps
> > > > > inthe
> > > > > ZTIDiskpart.txt (default) it works fine . I have tried some custom tasks
> > > > > to
> > > > > do the same thing, basically bypassing the ZTIDiskpart.wsf and it doesn't
> > > > > work either. I copied the .cmd and txt files to the CD and manaully ran
> > > > > them
> > > > > locally and it worked.
> >
> > > > > i am trying to deploy XP SP2 with WinPE 2005 source and SMS OSD. These are
> > > > > just new computer deploys at this point. I have literally spent 3 days
> > > > > straight trying to get this to work and am getting no where...
> >
> > > > > Help!?- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> I am using it with XP. Saw it once or twice but seems OK now. I did
> not change anything.
>
>

D1Artagnan

Has this issue been resolved by Microsoft yet? I'm experiencing the problem
on most of my DELL Optiplex GX620 and 745 models

"BDDAdmin" wrote:

> On Jul 17, 9:52 am, Crashball <>
> wrote:
> > Anyone else deploying XP with BDD 2007? from what i have heard it probably
> > isn't an issue with Vista, but i 'm not really to that point yet. Any other
> > input from the BDD guys? I'm getting desperate here.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Crashball" wrote:
> > > No dice. I upped it to 2 minutes and no change. It does work if there are no
> > > existing partitions. If i am at a labshell prompt and try and go to the c
> > > drive, it says it is not a valid drive. If i reboot and check again, the
> > > Previous partition with C: content is still there. checking taskmgr during
> > > this shows diskpart.exe and dmadmin.exe running but nothing is using any CPU.
> >
> > > "Tim Mintner (MS)" wrote:
> >
> > > > It's a timing issue on some disks and probably due to the performance of
> > > > some of the virtual machines.
> >
> > > > The ztidiskpart.wsf has a sleep in it to account for that but on some
> > > > machines it just isn't long enough.
> >
> > > > Change this line in ztidiskpart.wsf
> >
> > > > WScript.Sleep 5000
> >
> > > > Change it to something like 10000 for a 10 sec delay or 30000 for a 30 sec
> > > > delay.
> >
> > > > "Crashball" <> wrote in message
> > > >news:...
> > > > > Saw someone in the SMS Tools have this issue also, so at least i am not
> > > > > alone.
> >
> > > > > I am testing BDD 2007 ZTI on mainly Virtual Machines and Dell D600s and I
> > > > > can not get the Partition action to complete on its own. It just hangs
> > > > > there
> > > > > for hours if i let it. Sometime if i go to the labshell and click the
> > > > > mouse
> > > > > or manually go into diskpart, it will start up again, but not
> > > > > consistently.
> > > > > If i look at taskmgr, diskpart is running. if i maunally do the steps
> > > > > inthe
> > > > > ZTIDiskpart.txt (default) it works fine . I have tried some custom tasks
> > > > > to
> > > > > do the same thing, basically bypassing the ZTIDiskpart.wsf and it doesn't
> > > > > work either. I copied the .cmd and txt files to the CD and manaully ran
> > > > > them
> > > > > locally and it worked.
> >
> > > > > i am trying to deploy XP SP2 with WinPE 2005 source and SMS OSD. These are
> > > > > just new computer deploys at this point. I have literally spent 3 days
> > > > > straight trying to get this to work and am getting no where...
> >
> > > > > Help!?- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> I am using it with XP. Saw it once or twice but seems OK now. I did
> not change anything.
>
>

cwysong

I'm seeing it too. Bdd2007, XP SP2, Dell GX620. Any updates?