Deploy image to one partition (c:) end keep intact the other (d:)

[floryn]

i want to image only the first partition of my HDD which would be my system drive i have tried all the options size partition(resizable),multiple partition single disk etc but every time i deploy the image data in the d: is also lost. how can i deploy images so that only my system drive re-written and i keep my data intact on d: as it is. any ideas ??

[BryceZ]

This requires the disk geometry to be identical on all machines you’re deploying to…

Collect a multiple partition image, go into /images/<image name>/, delete the d: partition (d1p2 for XP, d1p3 for Vista/7).

When you go to deploy the image it might complain that it can’t find the last partition, but I’m pretty sure it’ll complete the task just fine.

[floryn]

Thank you for answer! I will try this way.

[nikonaum]

Is this workaround working? I’m searching all over the internet for the answer and I’m not finding it. My case is as follows: I prepared a Windows 7 Master image with SAD2 tool for installing drivers. Created a multipartition image (single disk) and deployed it on a computer with some hard drive on it with no sensitive information in it – everything is ok, image gets deployed and working fine, just had to manually format the rest of the hard drive which was unallocated. But I really want to image/reinstall computer and leaving its second partition (drive D ) intact.

[nikonaum]

P.S. I’ll try your method and post some results tomorrow or the day after

[chad-bisd]

Someone has posted on these forums the code modifications necessary to implement this in FOG. Requires changing some code so it prompts you which partitions you want to restore.

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/more-control-with-partitions.68/#post-3330[/url]

It’s written to work with FOG 0.30, but might work with FOG 0.32 with some slight modifications.