Help Winpe Image

[bruman3714]

Hi newbie here , at least posting and Winpe.

Does anyone tried to create a winpe image to deploy via power quest or altiris. What I was trying to-do was deploy a winpe image to a new machine then carve up the partition using diskpart then format ntfs and apply a automated unattended xp install then capture the gold image for later use with sysprep.

Anything helps!!!!!

[likuidkewl]

So you are dead set on deploying this image? Or can you settle with physical access? Is the trouble you are making images of many machines?

[bruman3714]

Well the functionality and the commands that can be run in the w32 mode vs dos .

I am using Altiris with a Bootworks client which is Dos based and diskpart utils and some other commands don't run under dos , so wanted to lay down the winpe boot image run a script to see disk size , carve it up by a % hide some and format ntfs , then run a unattened build for testing purpose's and all 60 machines are different hardware and the old way of doing was going to each machine and running a cd or floppy to start the unattended os.

The other thing I was going to try is make a dos image with xp/i386 dir and files from the cd and run a unattended install from that , but I then need to figure out the disk carving part out ?

Thanks

[likuidkewl]

How to boot the Windows Preinstall Environment from a RIS Server by using PXE-enabled clients

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;304992