Fogproject can only clone C disk

[george1421]

@china-boy said in Fogproject can only clone C disk:

So I just want to deploy to the target machine C disk what do I do?

This is the idea Sebastian and I were discussing. Can you tell me if the drive and drives are on the same physical disk or on different physical disks? If you do not know, can you post a screen shot of the disk manager from Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Manager->Disk Manager? That will tell us how your logical drives (C: D:) are allocated to physical drive(s)

[china.boy]

@george1421 Hello!
The target machine is on the same physical disk as the cloned machine C and D. My final idea is to reinstall the system without formatting user D, E, F disc and so on

[george1421]

@china-boy The problem I can see is that “windows” is actually built on multiple partitions. If you look at the computer manager you will see there are at least 3 partitions that make up a bootable computer. If you only copy partition 1 then the computer will not boot.

I don’t know if FOG has the capabilities to clone partitions 1, 2, 3 and skip the rest to make a bootable computer. I don’t have a FOG console handy at the moment to check.

Also on the side, the image manager splitting the captured image into 200MB chunks add no value here. Use either partclone gzip or zstd compression.

[china.boy]

@george1421 said in Fogproject can only clone C disk:

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I’m sorry.In fact, my idea is to deploy only C disk clones for the target machine without formatting or repartitioning

[george1421]

@china-boy That will work if:

1. You have the same partition (probably #3) for the drive on all computers.
2. The partition size for the drive is exactly the same on all computers.
3. You will probably need to pick single disk non-resizable because you don’t want FOG to reszie your drive partition.

I can say I have not tested your configuration so I can’t say if it will work or not. It “should” work as long as all of the computers have the drive in the same partition and the partition size is exactly the same on all computers. I know there are some people who have a dual boot computer (windows and linux each in their own partition) where they can restore partitions without disturbing the other OS. So your idea should work too.

[china.boy]

@george1421
Hello!
So how do I set up a partition that only clones the corresponding partition? I just want to clone the C disk

[george1421]

@china-boy You need to look at the control panel applet “computer management” (sorry I’m not typing on a windows computer, the name may be incorrect) but in that application is the disk management. You need to find out what partition is the drive. I don’t think its partition 1. Partition 1 is typically a boot loader partition. Then setup up your image as single disk, single partition. Then capture your image.

[china.boy]

@george1421

I do this, but fog will format the entire disk of the target machine into a partition during deployment

The previous partition was overwritten, so that the data previously held by the user in the D E character is gone

[Sebastian Roth]

@china-boy Can you please post a picture of disk management from the target PC before you deploy to it?

@george1421 I have read through the whole thread over and over and just had a glimps of an idea on what he’s actually trying to do. Not exactly sure but to me it sounds as if he has target PC with two or three partitions on them already. Now he’s prepared a fresh windows installation in a VM and wants to to capture and deploy only the windows partition of the VM out to the physical machines. Does that make sense?

[china.boy]

@Sebastian-Roth Sorry, what I want to say is that the captured image should be installed on other user machines in bulk, but other disk characters other than C disk cannot be erased.

[Sebastian Roth]

@china-boy Can you please post a picture of disk management from the target PC before you deploy to it?

[Sebastian Roth]

@china-boy said in Fogproject can only clone C disk:

Sorry, what I want to say is that the captured image should be installed on other user machines in bulk, but other disk characters other than C disk cannot be erased.

Hope you are still around. We’ve kind of lost track of this as you haven’t posted the picture of disk management of the target PC before deploy.

Without knowing the details I guess that you are trying to simply update after you have initially cloned the PC’s full disk. So steps I would recommend: In your FOG image definition set Partition to “Partition 2 only - (4)” and deploy the image to the target machine. This way only partition 2 (hope this is in your case) will be deployed and the other partitions won’t be touched.