We are having problems capturing an image using Windows Deployment Services. After we have syspreped the image, we PXE boot into WinPE and try to capture the image. There are two issues that we encounter:
1) We can't map to our WDS server on the network, though we can deploy images from it, we are able to map with certain PC models (but some don't), & we have injected the network drivers from the models into WinPE. However, it says network drive not found for certain models.
2) So to remedy issue #1, we hook up an external HD (in this case we've tested with a few different ones) and have the image capture to the drive instead of the deployment server. It proceeds capturing as normal before we get to around 50-70% before an error message saying 'Capture Image - There is not enough space on the disk'. The external drives we have tested with are a 320gb Toshiba & a 1 terabyte WD).
Any ideas of how we can fully save and capture these .wim images? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
Drew & Nate
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by: TCB1Posted on 2009-06-16 at 19:35:35ID: 24644455
Try defragging the systems your trying to capture. Also, remember that imageX will not capture a file if it is in use. Are the drives being captured almost full? Also, if there is trouble with the file system, imageX can fail on a capture. Run chkdsk on the drive before capturing.
You could try using Shadow Copy to copy the entire drive to a subdirectory on the target disk, then capture that subdirectory. This will insure that the files are not in use. Another advantage of using this Shadow Copy program is that you can capture a drive into a .wim file while booted from the volume you are capturing, so no need to boot to WinPE to do the capture.
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