Running Sysprep Copy Sysprepdomain. In Windows Vista, it comes with the operating system. Copy sysprepdomain. Once copied, you are almost ready to run sysprep on the reference PC.
Before you run sysprep to prepare the PC for imaging, you need to clean up the PC. Make sure you choose to cleanup "Files from All users".
Sysprep does do some of its own clean up too. Once you have cleaned up your reference PC, it is time to run Sysprep. Sysprep takes less than a minute to run.
The settings in your sysprep. Although generally, you would not do this, if you type just sysprep. Capturing and Applying a reference image. Capturing an Image Now that you have configured your reference PC and ran sysprep. Once you have an image of the reference PC, you can use it to setup all your other PCs. Get your WinPE 2.
Using ImageX to capture an image is very easy. Since we are assuming that you are using a Windows or Win domain, you are going to save your reference image to a server in your domain. First map a drive to the server you will be saving the image to.
Applying an ImageX image file is very similar to capturing one. First map a drive to the server you will be applying the image from. ImageX does not partition or format a drive when applying an image.
It simply lays down the contents of the image file on the hard drive. Therefore, you should either format the drive you are applying the image to, or if necessary, partition it, then format it. If you already have your hard drive partitioned the way you want, just run a quick format on the destination drive first. The following are the Diskpart commands you run one at a time. It will show you what disk drives you have.
Most likely your hard drive will be will be Disk 0, but you need to check it first. The index number in required. Wim files can contain more than one image, and the index number indicates what image you want to work with. Since your image files will probably contain only 1 image, use the number 1. Or type wpeutil shutdown at the command prompt to shutdown the PC. Additional Notes about Sysprep and ImageX. So if you captured an image from drive C:, you must apply the image to drive C:.
If you run Sysprep on an NTFS file system partition that contains encrypted files or folders, the data in those folders becomes completely unreadable and unrecoverable. As an example, when I imaged a fully configured Vista PC with a few applications no giant Office Suite type apps , it took about 50 minutes to capture and save the image to the file server using the steps outlined above.
The final image size was about 2. It took a little less than 6 minutes to apply the image from the file server. I suggested you use an asterisk instead of an actual computer name. In past versions of sysprep, if you left the computer name out of the sysprep configuration file, the install would stop and prompt you for a name. In Windows Vista, there is a bug. If you leave out the computer name, sysprep will generate a random computer name and not stop to prompt you for one. Why should I install the Microsoft Download Manager?
In this case, you will have to download the files individually. You would have the opportunity to download individual files on the "Thank you for downloading" page after completing your download. Files larger than 1 GB may take much longer to download and might not download correctly. You might not be able to pause the active downloads or resume downloads that have failed. Back Next. Details Version:. File Name:. Date Published:. File Size:. System Requirements Supported Operating System.
Install Instructions Click the Download button on this page to start the download. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. You can do a Startup Repair, System Restore, etc from it.
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