Scripts.exe Help

[tchc33]

Hi All,

I've generated a script to resize the "C" drive which I'd like to use as part of an XP rebuild process. When I run the script against scripts.exe all I get is a dos box with the word "Raid5". Whatever command I input to scripts.exe I always get "Raid5" as the output.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[Paragon_MattK]

I'd be happy to take a look, can you post your script? Or at least part of it?

[tchc33]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I'd love to post the script but I'm in the middle of rebuilding the machine so can't access it.

If it helps, no matter what script I generated, whether is was partition resize (what I want), creating a partition or removing a partition, scripts.exe would always output "Raid5" Even if I run scripts.exe on it's own the output would be the same.

I'm rebuilding the test machine to take any other software etc out of the equation.

Any help you can give would be gratefully recieved.

[tchc33]

I should add I am testing what we want to do on similar hardware we will be running the rebuild on; IBM desktop machine with a standard IDE single hard disk.

Thanks

[tchc33]

Hi,

I've reinstalled on a clean XP machine and no longer get the "Raid5" message. When I run a created script now, I get:

<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...:Unknown option "vss2hbswitch" in SETTINGS Block.
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Grammar error. There is no rule which contains such word: "ON"
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Grammar error. There is no rule which contains such word: "vssattempts"
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Missing ':' in label before "3".
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Grammar error. There is no rule which contains such word: "vsstimeout".
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Missing ':' in label before "120
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Grammar error. There is no rule which contains such word: "ENDSETTINGS"
<script name> :34: Disconnecting Virtual Hard Disk "%s"...: Grammar error. There is no rule which contains such word: "CONFIRM"

When I remove the offending 3 lines from the "SETTINGS" portion of the script, I get the message;
"Can't create the 5th primary partition. Source partition will be deleted! Command line error.: Invalid operation code.

These errors are from any script generated from a resize/move operation, there is only one hard drive with two partitions on it.

Any help would be great! Thanks.

[tchc33]

Hi, here's the contents of one of the scripts I use although it doesn't matter whate the script does (resize, delete partition etc) the error message is the same.

Please help!!!

// This file was automatically generated by {VENDOR_NAME} script generator
// Use {VENDOR_NAME} Script Interpretator to run this file
// Time of creation: Fri Feb 05 13:46:46 2010


// Settings block
settings
surfacetest off
verify off
copyonetoone off
hddrawprocess off
allow64kcluster off
donothidetarget on
copyinsteadofmove off
bigdrives off
compressionlevel 1
sidafterdisk off
sidafterpartition off
defaultsidchanger on
nodellabel off
timeshift 0
oemcodepage 850
timezone 20
langnumber 17
slavecfg off
notforslave off
enablerestart on
enablevirtualdb on
autoconverttofat32 on
sidparams ""
bootcdiso ".\..\ISO\bootcd.iso"
hotbackup lockimpossible
tempdrive C
vss2hbswitch on
vssattempts 3
vsstimeout 120
endsettings

// Turn off confirmation
confirm off

// Move partition
print "Move partition"
print ""
select disk 0
select partition primary 1
move /size = 67377681 /position = 21476763 move_resize

// Check for errors
call check_error

// Apply all scheduled operations
apply all

// Check for errors
call check_error

// Exiting
// exit(0)

// Function for checking error
check_error:
if (errorcode(1) != 0)
then
print "Some error occured: "
strerror(errorcode(1))
print ""
print "Exiting"
print ""
exit(errorcode(1))
endif
endcall

[Paragon_MattK]

Try this and let me know how it goes.

// This file was automatically generated by {VENDOR_NAME} script generator
// Use {VENDOR_NAME} Script Interpretator to run this file
// Time of creation: Fri Feb 05 13:46:46 2010

SCO ON
// Settings block
settings
surfacetest off
verify off
copyonetoone off
hddrawprocess off
allow64kcluster off
donothidetarget on
copyinsteadofmove off
bigdrives off
compressionlevel 1
sidafterdisk off
sidafterpartition off
defaultsidchanger on
nodellabel off
timeshift 0
oemcodepage 850
timezone 20
langnumber 17
slavecfg off
notforslave off
enablerestart on
enablevirtualdb on
autoconverttofat32 on
sidparams ""
bootcdiso ".\..\ISO\bootcd.iso"
hotbackup lockimpossible
tempdrive C

endsettings

// Turn off confirmation
confirm off

// Move partition
print "Move partition"
print ""
select disk 0
select partition primary 1
move /size = 67377681 /position = 21476763 move_resize

// Check for errors
call check_error

// Apply all scheduled operations
apply all

// Check for errors
call check_error

// Exiting
// exit(0)

// Function for checking error
check_error:
if (errorcode(1) != 0)
then
print "Some error occured: "
strerror(errorcode(1))
print ""
print "Exiting"
print ""
exit(errorcode(1))
endif
endcall

[tchc33]

Thought I'd let everyone know what the problems were in case anyone else get's the same errors.

The raid5 message was because I was running scripts.exe with the gui open, the reason it said "raid5" and not "the gui is still open" or something is because we have version 10 of PM and version 9 of the extensions which included scripts.exe. that's also why when the gui was closed, the scripts didn't run. Version 10 was creating syntax in the scripts that version 9 of scripts.exe didn't understand.

Cheers everyone.