Modify LiteTouch CustomSettings.ini/vbs/wsf to skip repartitioning task

Question

I have been given a bootable USB stick that contains a LiteTouch deployment that we are using for our Win7 migrations. I have also been investigating USMT hardlink backups/restores and my problem is that the LiteTouch deployment has a task in there that
repartitions and wipes the drive.
While I am unable to modify the tasks via LiteTouch / MDT, I am able to modify the contents of the USB stick, so I thought perhaps there is something I can put in the CustomSettings.ini to prevent this step from happening. I added:
DeploymentType=REFRESH
OSDStateStorePath=c:\backup
OSDMigrateAdditionalRestoreOptions=/nocompress /hardlink
thinking that the DeploymentType being refresh would instruct the deployment to not do a repartition/wipe, but that didn't work.
The USB has an autorun.inf which calls upon BDD_autorun.wsf, which in turn executes the LiteTouch.vbs script. I tried modifying that to pass in the DeploymentType flag:
If oShell.Popup( WelcomeMessage1 & vbNewLine & WelcomeMessage2, 15, WelcomeHeader1, 1 or 64) = 1 then
oShell.Run "cscript.exe //nologo """ & WScript.ScriptFullName & "\..\LiteTouch.vbs /DeploymentType:REFRESH""",,FALSE
End if
but that too failed.
Does anyone know how or what can modify to prevent the repartitioning step to occur by just modifying the CustomSettings.ini, or any vb/wsf file?
thanks,

Answer 1

MDT Litetouch.wsf launched ( as see in bdd.log ) the Stand Alone Task Sequencer
About to run command: "C:\MININT\Tools\X86\TsmBootstrap.exe" /env:SAStart LiteTouch 12/11/2013 2:33:57 PM 0 (0x0000)
Property LTIDirty is now = TRUE LiteTouch 12/11/2013 2:33:57 PM 0 (0x0000)
Command completed, return code = -2147467259 LiteTouch 12/11/2013 2:34:01 PM 0 (0x0000)
Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -2147467259 0x80004005 LiteTouch 12/11/2013 2:34:01 PM 0 (0x0000)
However, as you can see, the Task Seqence Manager returned an error.
Going into the smsts.log file, we can see that one of the steps returned an error:
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------! TSManager 12/11/2013 2:34:00 PM 5640 (0x1608)
Expand a string: WinPEandFullOS TSManager 12/11/2013 2:34:00 PM 5640 (0x1608)
Executing command line: cmd /c copy "%SCRIPTROOT%\custom\CustomSettings2.bak" "x:\windows\system32\CustomSettings2.ini" TSManager 12/11/2013 2:34:00 PM 5640 (0x1608)
Process completed with exit code 1 TSManager 12/11/2013 2:34:00 PM 5640 (0x1608)
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------! TSManager 12/11/2013 2:34:00 PM 5640 (0x1608)
Failed to run the action: Copy Custom Settings.
Incorrect function. (Error: 00000001; Source: Windows) TSManager 12/11/2013 2:34:00 PM 5640 (0x1608)
The step was *NOT* marked as "continue on error" in the MDT Task Sequence, so... the task sequence died.
Either: remove the step, Mark it as "continue on error", or some other error in your command needs to be fixed.
Keith Garner - keithga.wordpress.com