SDI2HD / DISKPART HELP

[Guest]

Please help.
How can I create a sdi image of a Partition protected by ewf?
and is there a way to script the partition creation and copy of all data
(trying to mass produce my runtimes without using ghost )?

here is what my runtime looks like:
partition #1> 2 GB - OS
partition #2> 2 GB - overlay
partition #3> 2 GB - Pagefile
partition #4> 65 GB - DATA partition

Thank you in advance.

 

[KM]

Manny,

Absolutely. You can use diskpart and script it whatever you need to do to partition the driver properly.
diskpart.exe is a part of XPe. Format is the next utility you are going to use to format the drive partitions.

xcopy will help you with copying the files over to the partitioned drive.

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

I don't see how the SDI tools can be used to save and create multiple
partitions on a disk. WinPE with diskpart and xcopy or Ghost are the best
solutions.

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Sean Liming
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[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Now that I think about it, xcopy cannot be used to copy over the EWF volume.
Your best bet is Ghost

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit
XP Training Class Nov 28-30 - http://www.sjjmicro.com/Training.html

 

[KM]

Oh, that's right. I missed the part with EWF Disk overlay

Ghost would indeed be a good and painless approach there with Disk overlay enabled initially.
Or, SDI image with disk blob can be used (use SDIMgr to capture the image).

If Ghost is not acceptable, it may still be possible to deploy the image with diskpart and xcopy tools. Then the golden image needs
to have EWF disabled and *not* configured (disable FBA resources for EWF component in TD). On the very first boot of the cloned
images, a command to configure EWF with Disk overlay can be launched rebooting the device when it's done. This way you don't really
have to capture and copy the EWF overlay while cloning.

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

There is also hard drive disk duplicators that could do the job.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit
XP Training Class Nov 28-30 - http://www.sjjmicro.com/Training.html