WDS Capture - Multiple partitions
Anyone been able to Capture Multiple Partitions with WDS ? I can capture the c: drive and not any other partitions on the box.. any ideas? limitations in the capture process?
Im going to check the ZTIcapture script
Thanks
Respostas
- You can create multiple partitions with the unattend.xml file.
For deploying data to another partition maybe you could use imagex to capture what you need and then imagex /apply to that partition, after setup has run. Is that what you need to do?
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Hi,
The WDS capture tool will only allow you to capture partitions with a sysprepped OS on them. In addition, you can only capture one partition at a time. If you need to capture partitions without an OS, you can boot to Windows PE and use imagex.exe to capture them.
Hope this helps,
Jez- I need to deploy second partition after system is deployed using WDS , how i can do this using unattend.xml file ?
- You can create multiple partitions with the unattend.xml file.
For deploying data to another partition maybe you could use imagex to capture what you need and then imagex /apply to that partition, after setup has run. Is that what you need to do? - Thanks Jay , but I need to deploy second partition after deploying system partition with Windows XP .I can successfully capture this partition , but i have no idea how to deploy it .I can easily do this with windows vista , with unattend.xml file , but i cant do this with Windows Xp . I am still getting partition wizard before installing image , and cant get rid of it .
Anybody has a idea how to fully automate process of installing Windows XP on 2 partitions ? - I had a simular problem doing this also, but I was able to get it to work using Imagex, just not WDS. One question though, are you putting your Documents settings on the D:\? If so, this is exactly the same problem I have. I posted the following and did not get an answer yet, if I ever get one I will let you know. :
When I try to add my Image in WDS I get the following message: The file does not contain a valid install image.
Here is what I have done so far. I have a syspreped Win XP machine that has the system on the C:\ drive and the Documents and Settings folder on the D:\ drive. For testing purposes I first attempted this by only capturing the C:\ drive using Imagex. I copied it to my WDS server and was able to add it to the Install images with no problems. I even PXE booted the machine, formatted the C:\ drive and imaged it with that image, and it worked perfectly. Now I needed to add the D:\ drive to my .wim image so I used imagex /append to add the d:\ to my image. Then for testing purposes I used the Imagex /apply to image the machine with both the C:\ and the D:\ drives, I also had no problems with this, booted the machine and everything was perfect. I then copied the wim image to my server and attempted to add the image to Install Images and that is when I got the error. I have tried this multiple times and no luck.
Any help would be great. - Hi Semion,
Could you please tell me how you are deploying vista C: and D: image using WDS. I am able to capture C: and D: image using append option but unable to deploy it. Please let me know the whole procedure and also share the unattend.xml file.
I have to finish this by today EOD so plz helm me out.
Thanks in advance
Pankaj
