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Subject: Removable media USB stick questions
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buttsteakUser is Offline

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09/22/2008 4:10 PM  

Hello,

I am running MDT 2008 x86 on Windows Vista Business SP1 x86 laptop for the purpose of making removable media image. 

I would like to place the bootable image on a usb 2.0 stick.

What are the steps required to prepare the usb stick and how/what do I place the custom image(s) on it?  I would also like to have the usb stick be bootable without prompting.

 

 

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10/03/2008 8:27 AM  

First create a task sequence that formats and applys your custom WIM.

From your Deployment workbench, create a new deployment point and select Removeable media deployment.

from the task sequences tick the newly created custom.wim tasksequence.

Make sure that the WINPE tab has Mass Storage Drivers and network Drivers ticked.

Right click deployment point and select update.

boot from a PE 2.CD

type diskpart and press enter.

At the diskpart prompt run the following commands

List disk

This will list the disks attached (there should be 2, Disk 0 is your local Hard disk, disk 1 will be your USB HARD disk).

Select Disk 1

Clean

Create Partition Primary

Select partition1

Active

Format fs=ntfs quick

Assign

Exit

Xcopy \\deploymentserver\USBDistribution share\Content\*.* e:\ /e/h/f

 

and hey presto you are good to go.....

 

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