Windows Deployment Services

[morphears]

Does anybody know a quick and easy way to format all machines that are about to be re-imaged so that they don't create the windowsold folder holding all the old system settings etc.

When we used to use RIS it formatted as part of the process, I assume there must be a quick and easy way to do this with WDS.

Any info much appreciated as always.

Andy (Morphears)

[fizban2]

Does anybody know a quick and easy way to format all machines that are about to be re-imaged so that they don't create the windowsold folder holding all the old system settings etc.

When we used to use RIS it formatted as part of the process, I assume there must be a quick and easy way to do this with WDS.

Any info much appreciated as always.

Andy (Morphears)

WillWipeDisk specifies whether to erase all partitions on the hard disk before adding additional configurations to the disk.

WillWipeDisk is blocked in Windows PE if any of the following conditions are true:

Windows Setup binaries are running from the disk in question.

The currently running operating system is booted (but not RAM-drive booted) from the disk in question.

There is an active page file on the disk in question.

<DiskConfiguration>
	 <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
	 <Disk>
		  <DiskID>0</DiskID>
		  <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
		  <CreatePartitions>
			   <CreatePartition>
<!-- Create primary partition, 20 GB -->
					<Order>1</Order>
					<Type>Primary</Type>
					<Size>20000</Size>
			   </CreatePartition>
<!-- Create extended partition and fill the rest of the hard disk -->
			   <CreatePartition>
					<Order>2</Order>
					<Type>Extended</Type>
					<Extend>true</Extend>
			   </CreatePartition>
<!-- Create logical partition within the extended partition, 6 GB -->
			   <CreatePartition>
					<Order>3</Order>
					<Type>Logical</Type>
					<Size>6000</Size>
			   </CreatePartition>
		  </CreatePartitions>
	 </Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>

Download the WAIK documentation from MS website for more information