[Qemu-devel] Gdisk.exe failure - abort, retry, fail

[penna]

Hi,

        We are using gdisk.exe in order to format the HD in our WINXP ISO 
image of installation.
        The problem with GDISK.EXE is the _second_ execution of it. For 
example:

A:\> gdisk /?
 (... it shows the help)

A:\> gdisk /?

        It shows the message:

Error reading drive A  (<- the original message is in portuguese: "Falha 
geral lendo unidade A" so I translated to english)
Abort, Retry, Fail?   (<- this one is everybody known)

        If I choose abort or fail it ends at message:
Unit is not valid anymore>   (something like that - in portuguese: "A 
unidade atual nao e mais valida>")

        It happens *all* the time. It doesn't matter what parameters I 
pass to the gdisk.exe.
        Someone could suggest "use fdisk instead!". Ok! I could use it. 
But I think we have some kind of buffer overflow here and I'd like to 
help, if possible. If so, what sort of parameters should I pass to -d flag 
(I was looking at the URL http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html)??
        Sugestions? Clues?

Thanks.
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