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Create image; multiple disks or partitions

Updated: 01 Jul 2010 | 3 comments
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I hope someone can tell me if I'm doing something wrong.  When I try to create an image of a machine with 2 logical drives, I only get one of the drives in the image.  I am using a simple create image job with rdeploy.exe and I am specifying additional parameters -d1 -d2.  I believe this is the correct and easy method to capture the image of the 2 drives, which has always worked in the past.

I believe my pre-boot images contain all the necessary drivers.  Now what is very strange is that if I use the parameters "-p1 -p2" it always captures the system drive C only.  But if I use parameters "-d1 -d2" I always get just the secondary data drive.  I have tried this on a variety of target machines and operating systems.  The results are consistent, but I don't understand why this behaviour is occurring.  I want an image that contains the two logical drives (slots) in the image.

I am using DS 6.9 SP4 with Rdeploy.exe and WinPE 2.1.

Any suggestions please,

Thanks

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Endre's picture
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2010
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If you don't specify anything rdeploy includes all partitions.

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Why capture multiple drives in image?

Why are you capturing multiple drives in the image?
You can use diskpart to create other drives after deploying your image.
That way your image, with only the c-drive stays small and the deploy time also decreases.

What is the purpose of the second drive/partition?

Jean Hendriks
ICT | Deployment & Packaging
Mondriaan Zorggroep
www.mondriaan.eu

MikeRowland's picture
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Re. Why capture multiple drives in image?

I was trying to create backup images of some Exchange 2007 servers.

Anyhow, I have now decided to simply capture each partition separately.

Thanks