deployin XPe image to target

[FCBfreak]

Hi,

I've read about the option to use WinPE in combination with the System
Deployment Image (SDI) feature to deploy a runtime image (bottom of
page):
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838635.aspx

Should it be possible to boot the target to WinPE and then simply copy
the image files to the target's hard drive from an external 2.5" USB
hard drive?

Or isn't this possibly under WinPe and as a consequence you have to
use the WinPE/SDI combination by which you connect to a network share
containing the SDI image file?

Thanks in advance

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Instead of using SDI, there have been WinPE solution to access a remote
share with the OS image, and use xcopy to copy the image to the . Another
solution are to use USB flash disk boot.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[KM]

Yes, you can definitely just (x)copy your image runtime bits to the hard-drive using WinPE.

 

[FCBfreak]

Instead of using SDI, there have been WinPE solution to access a remote
share with the OS image, and use xcopy to copy the image to the . Another
solution are to use USB flash disk boot.

Regards,

Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit










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@sean: I own your book 'Windows XP Embedded Advanced', as a
consequence I'm aware of the different techniques that can be used in
order to deploy the runtime. -)

 

[FCBfreak]

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consequence I'm aware of the different techniques that can be used in
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Can I use following command line code then to copy all files available
in the "Windows Embedded Images" directory to the target hard drive at
once:

"xcopy <USBDrive>:\Windows Embedded Images\*.* /s /e /f C:\

Maybe it's required to rename the directory so it doens't contain
spaces anymore?

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

I mostly use Remote Recover or USB boot disk. KM posted a solution sometime
ago.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[KM]

You definitely want to copy all the files "at once". The xcopy deals with spaces just fine. Although I always prefer fixing the
syntax with quotes. E.g., xcopy "<USBDrive>:\Windows Embedded Images\*.*" /s /e /f C:\.

There are better and more reliable tools like robocopy, xxcopy, etc. (mentioned those here:
http://km-dev.blogspot.com/2007/03/xpe-tip-4-image-restore-general-idea.html)

The command you showed below would work assuming you have:
- prepared the local hard disk (partition, mark the system partition as active, formatted, mounted as C: drive in WinPE session)
- The "<USBDrive>:\Windows Embedded Images" folder contains the runtime bits and is the root of the image. e.g., the ntldr and
boot.ini are in that folder directly, not in any subfolder.