On and off over the past 6 months I've tried to figure out a way to use Rapid Deploy to image an IBM laptop with an OEM partition and keep the OEM partition functional after the image. I've hunted through the KB's and Forums and no one seems to have an answer. Why do I want to have the OEM partition there anyway? I need to have a simple solution to quickly have the machine exactly the way it was from the manufacturer. It's handy when lease returns come up. The only solution that has worked so far is Ghost. Eek! KB 19972 explains how to use ghost with DS here https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=19972&p=1 There is something that you need to know to get this to work correctly. You have to make an image from just the partition (not the entire disk) and image down to only that partition. I didn't actually use the command line to make the image (gasp!). I just opened ghost from Bootworks and went to "Local-Partition-To Image" and selected the partition that I wanted. Altough, if you're daring, I think this should work to create an image from the first partition of the disk: ghost -clone,mode=pdump,src=1:1,dst=f:\PATH\FILENAME.gho –sure To use the newly created ghost image, make a DS job to run this script (I've actually used this script and it works like a charm):
ghost -clone,mode=prestore,src=f:\PATH\FILENAME.gho:1,dst=1:1 –sure