Sysprep - Resize primary partition (?)

Hi,
I'm trying to get ready to sysprep/ghost an image we are using in a
small grade school computer lab. This is all Windows XP Professional.
The target computers are all exactly the same - they come out of the
box with a primary partition that is 75G in size.

The clone image will contain the Microsoft Shared Toolkit, which
requires that the primary partition be resized to a smaller size, and
free space left at the end of the drive. For example, my 75G drive
might be resized down to 65G.

Is there *any* way to build a sysprep response file, using commands
to run a script that will give the result of reducing the size of the
primary partition? I read up on DISKPART, but I can't see a way to get
that to do it. I may be (hopefully) missing something.

The alternative is to manually partition all the machines prior to
cloning, but...yuck...

Thanks for any help you can give me!
-Chris

If you are using Ghost try this switch inthe command line
sze1=10000M
That will partition the drive to a 10gb as the first partition

"furtherside@yahoo.com" wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to get ready to sysprep/ghost an image we are using in a
> small grade school computer lab. This is all Windows XP Professional.
> The target computers are all exactly the same - they come out of the
> box with a primary partition that is 75G in size.
>
> The clone image will contain the Microsoft Shared Toolkit, which
> requires that the primary partition be resized to a smaller size, and
> free space left at the end of the drive. For example, my 75G drive
> might be resized down to 65G.
>
> Is there *any* way to build a sysprep response file, using commands
> to run a script that will give the result of reducing the size of the
> primary partition? I read up on DISKPART, but I can't see a way to get
> that to do it. I may be (hopefully) missing something.
>
> The alternative is to manually partition all the machines prior to
> cloning, but...yuck...
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!
> -Chris
>
>

Kostas wrote:
> If you are using Ghost try this switch inthe command line
> sze1=10000M
> That will partition the drive to a 10gb as the first partition
>
> "furtherside@yahoo.com" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to get ready to sysprep/ghost an image we are using in a
> > small grade school computer lab. This is all Windows XP Professional.
> > The target computers are all exactly the same - they come out of the
> > box with a primary partition that is 75G in size.
> >
> > The clone image will contain the Microsoft Shared Toolkit, which
> > requires that the primary partition be resized to a smaller size, and
> > free space left at the end of the drive. For example, my 75G drive
> > might be resized down to 65G.
> >
> > Is there *any* way to build a sysprep response file, using commands
> > to run a script that will give the result of reducing the size of the
> > primary partition? I read up on DISKPART, but I can't see a way to get
> > that to do it. I may be (hopefully) missing something.
> >
> > The alternative is to manually partition all the machines prior to
> > cloning, but...yuck...
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can give me!
> > -Chris
> >
> >

ahhh, thanks...that triggered me to check on something: I believe that
if I save a disk image, and then when restoring that image to the new
computer, if I select to also restore the MBR, then I will effectively
be putting the image onto the new computer with partitions and all,
totally "cloned" from the original machine. I'm using Ghost 10.0

At least, that's what I think...any comments?

-Chris

Ghost is smart enoughthat will try to place the image on the slave drive as
slose as the original regarding spce. Howver if hte size is different it aill
try to mimic the master image.
In order to fix this, you can make the master image and when you try to
place it on the slave pc, setup the size swicth to whatever you think is
needed for the C partition and the rest will become D


"furtherside@yahoo.com" wrote:

> Kostas wrote:
> > If you are using Ghost try this switch inthe command line
> > sze1=10000M
> > That will partition the drive to a 10gb as the first partition
> >
> > "furtherside@yahoo.com" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to get ready to sysprep/ghost an image we are using in a
> > > small grade school computer lab. This is all Windows XP Professional.
> > > The target computers are all exactly the same - they come out of the
> > > box with a primary partition that is 75G in size.
> > >
> > > The clone image will contain the Microsoft Shared Toolkit, which
> > > requires that the primary partition be resized to a smaller size, and
> > > free space left at the end of the drive. For example, my 75G drive
> > > might be resized down to 65G.
> > >
> > > Is there *any* way to build a sysprep response file, using commands
> > > to run a script that will give the result of reducing the size of the
> > > primary partition? I read up on DISKPART, but I can't see a way to get
> > > that to do it. I may be (hopefully) missing something.
> > >
> > > The alternative is to manually partition all the machines prior to
> > > cloning, but...yuck...
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help you can give me!
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > >
>
> ahhh, thanks...that triggered me to check on something: I believe that
> if I save a disk image, and then when restoring that image to the new
> computer, if I select to also restore the MBR, then I will effectively
> be putting the image onto the new computer with partitions and all,
> totally "cloned" from the original machine. I'm using Ghost 10.0
>
> At least, that's what I think...any comments?
>
> -Chris
>
>