Profiles on D

[pedropony]

Hi,

 

I have moved the lcoation of user profiles to the D drive.

 

Can I use WDS to deploy Windows to the C drive and the Profiles to the D drive?

 

Thanks

P

[btdag]

Have you done this before you captured the image?

 

You are not able to deploy Windows to the C drive and the Profiles to the D drive. You can deploy Windows and after deploying it you can move the Profiles location, you can probably even do this as a part of the deployment process as long as your drive letters are set in the WDS Unattended file and the profile locations in the image unattended file.

[pedropony]

Hi,

 

I havent captured the image yet, was just wondering if it was possible. Loks like its more complicated than I first thought.

[btdag]

It's not that complicated. The easiest way i have found is to capture your image without the user profiles moved, deploy it into audit mode then sysprep the system again from an elevated command line:

 

 

C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep /quiet /oobe /shutdown /unattend:C:\Windows\OOBE\Relocate.xml

 

Make sure you close the Sysprep Window that always shows up in Audit mode before running the command or it will fail. And remember to put the .xml file in the correct folder when you're in Audit mode.

 

When the user first starts the system it will relocate the user folder before the user goes through the OOBE process.

Relocate.xml

[pedropony]

Thanks bttag.

 

If I could ask your advice on one more thing. In the answer fiel I currenlty have it setup to create the C drive at x size. Is it possible to tell it to also create the D drive but to take up the rest of the dirve space rather than stating an exact size?

 

Thanks again

[btdag]

Yes it is:

 

As an example here is a legacy (MBR) partition layout:

 

 

 

<DiskConfiguration>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <CreatePartitions>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                            <Size>12000</Size>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                            <Size>300</Size>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>3</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                            <Extend>false</Extend>
                            <Size>102400</Size>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Extend>true</Extend>
                            <Order>4</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                    </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                            <Label>Recovery</Label>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <TypeID>0x27</TypeID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                            <Label>System</Label>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Active>true</Active>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>3</Order>
                            <PartitionID>3</PartitionID>
                            <Label>Windows</Label>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>Data</Label>
                            <Letter>D</Letter>
                            <Order>4</Order>
                            <PartitionID>4</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                </Disk>
                <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
            </DiskConfiguration>

[WinOutreach4]

Specifically, the setting <Extend>True</Extend> is what makes the partition use the remaining space. The Extend page from the Unattended Windows Setup Reference explains this in detail. Also, setting this as ‘False’ on other partitions is not necessary, as False is the default value.

 

Hope this helps,

 

David

Windows Outreach Team – IT Pro

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