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Upgrade from XP to Win7 without formatting computer using MDT/Lite Touch Install

Proposed Answer Upgrade from XP to Win7 without formatting computer using MDT/Lite Touch Install

  • Monday, September 24, 2012 9:47 PM
     
     
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    Is it possible to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 without formatting the hard drive? my goal is to manually run a user state migration with hardlink, then load Win7 on top of this.
     

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  • Monday, September 24, 2012 10:20 PM
     
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    Yes this scenario is supported out of the box with MDT (both 2010 and 2012).

    In 2010 you are required to run the task sequence to install Win7 from inside the running Windows XP (it doesn't support offline usmt out of the box), where as with 2012 you can run the task sequence to install Windows 7 from either the running XP or from within "LiteTouchPE" (customized WinPE version for MDT).

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    Stephan Schwarz

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    How to configure Windows RE/OEM Recovery Partition with MDT

    • Proposed As Answer by Andrew Barnes Monday, September 24, 2012 10:36 PM
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  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:39 PM
     
     
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    Than you for the reply, most articles i have seen are regarding wiping the image clean and laying windows 7 down.  I want to create a simple ISO that i can burn to disc, zerotouch, that will launch custom scripts and use USMT hardlink to preserve the data.   Does anyone have any links that can point me to the right direction?
     
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:33 PM
     
     
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    "Zerotouch" is only possible with SCCM, however you can automate everything that the deployment wizard asks for by defining the customsettings.ini file. This would pretty much result in the same.

    Start the MDT help, and search for "Fully Automated LTI Deployment for a Refresh Computer Scenario". In order to make an ISO that does all this, you can this either by creating the default .wim image and the optional .iso file that you can enable inside the properties of the deployment share. However this method will require network functionality of the machine you're trying to deploy an OS to. If that's not desired, you can create a MDT media, this can be found in the Advanced configuration node of the deployment share (inside the mdt workbench), keep in mind that you are selective with what you want to actually be on the media since a deployment share can easily grow to a size that won't fit on dvd. The mdt help also provides examples and explanation on this topic.

    Kind regards,

    Stephan Schwarz

    If one of these posts answered your question or issue, please click on "Mark as answer".

    My Blog | Twitter: @Schwarz_Stephan | MCTS, MCITP, MCSA, MCC-2011.
    How to configure Windows RE/OEM Recovery Partition with MDT

     
  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:08 PM
     
     
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    Hello,

    I have my customsettigs.ini and after the ready to begin screen the wizard crashes, here is my .ini  I also noticed at the summary screen, there is no details listed in the drop down.

    [Settings]

    Priority=Default

    Properties=MyCustomProperty

     

    [Default]

    OSInstall=Y

    SkipCapture=YES

    SkipAdminPassword=YES

    SkipProductKey=YES
     

    DeploymentType=REFRESH


    SkipDomainMembership=YES

    JoinDomain=***    

    DomainAdmin=***

    DomainAdminDomain=***

    DomainAdminPassword=***

     
    SkipUserData=yes

    SkipComputerBackup=YES

    SkipTaskSequence=YES

    TSGuid=test


    SkipComputerName=YES

    OSDComputerName=%ComputerName%

     
    SkipPackageDisplay=YES

    SkipLocaleSelection=YES

    UILanguage=en-US

    UserLocale=en-CA

    KeyboardLocale=0409:00000409

    SkipTimeZone=YES

    TimeZoneName=Pacific Standard Time

    SkipApplications=YES

    Applications1={6c5c5184-4f25-4749-8d34-04207ee09325}
    Applications2={b57036c0-c104-4851-8cfa-7e1a25bd6cb0}
    Applications3={38f6b83e-811c-4d87-92f8-75ea632335b5}

    UserID=user

    UserDomain=%computername%

    UserPassword=****

    SkipBitLocker=YES

    SkipSummary=YES




     
  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:37 PM
     
     
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    after some troubleshooting, when i add this code

    SkipTaskSequence=YES

    TSGuid=Test

    The next screen is locale, and the english language drop down is empty.

     
  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:46 PM
     
     
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    Now if i delete the TS entries, i get error zti error ltiapply: the system cannot the specified file.
     
  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:54 PM
     
     
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    Also i tried a defualt install, running the upgrade from windows XP, and it wiped out the drive.  How can i force it to keep the data?