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Appendix 2: imagex, Appendix 3: diskpart, Microsoft imagex – Dell Intel PRO Family of Adapters User Manual

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the drive selection screen, input SHIFT-F10 to open a command prompt.

Important: At the command prompt, cycle through the drive letters and use the dir command to identify which disk partitions

are mounted with which driver letters. WinPE may use different drive letters than Windows, so no assumptions can be made.

Once the partitions are identified, ImageX can be used to capture the image.

Appendix 2: ImageX

ImageX is available as part of the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). To get ImageX:

1. Download and install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows* 8 from the Microsoft web site.

2. Run the downloaded adksetup file.

3. Select Deployment Tools to install.

4. After the installation has completed, imagex.exe may be found in one of the following paths:

32-bit: c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\x86\DISM

64-bit: c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment

Tools\amd64\DISM

5. Copy the appropriate ImageX to portable media for use during the imaging process.

ImageX is documented at Microsoft Technet:

http://technet.microsoft.com

Appendix 3: DiskPart

If a partition image tool is used to copy Windows to the FCoE LUN, then DiskPart must be used to create partitions on the

FCoE LUN. There are two sets of instructions below. The first covers creating one partition, while the second covers the case

where a System Reserved partition is captured in addition to the Windows partition.

To identify the FCoE LUN disk number within DiskPart, use the LIST DISK command. Alternatively, Disk Management also

shows the disk numbers.

Windows Server 2008 or Later without System Reserved partition

The following sequence of commands in DiskPart will create a Windows partition on an FCoE LUN, suitable for imaging

Windows Server when no System Reserved partition is used (assumes FCoE LUN is disk 1, and only C: and D: are already

used by Windows):

1. Select disk 1.

2. Clean

WARNING: This will destroy everything on the disk, so be sure the correct disk is selected!

3. Create partition primary.

NOTE: Add SIZE=nnn to the end of the line to create a partition of size nnn in MB.

4. Select partition 1.

5. Active.

6. Format FS=NTFS QUICK.

7. Assign LETTER=E.

8. Exit.

Windows Server 2008 and Later with a System Reserved partition

The following sequence of commands in DiskPart will create a System Reserved and Windows partition on an FCoE LUN,

suitable for imaging Windows 2008 R2 (assumes FCoE LUN is disk 1, and only C: and D: are already used by Windows):

1. Select disk 1.

2. Clean

WARNING: This will destroy everything on the disk, so be sure the correct disk is selected!