RIS image format partition



Hello,

We made a RIS environment. 3 different HAL environments, 3 different images,
Windows 2003 SP1 HAL filtering etc.. So everything is working fine, exept
one thing, the partition format.
In our company wu use 2 partitions / XP systems. One for the system and the
other for user datas. If the system fail we just want to reinstall the
system partition and we don not want to make anything wiht the user datas.
Unfortunatelly the RIS deployment start with disk format :-( This means that
the user datas disappear (sux).
Of course we red a lot of about this problem. We use the UseWholeDisk=No in
the sif file, but our opinion is that we hide the user datas drive (with
third party applicatons) and the destination partition size same with the
image system partition size (this means if we ripprep a system with 20 gb of
system partition the new desktop system artition have to be 20 gb). Out of
this two things one is not true the user data partition wil disappear during
OS deployment via RIS.

Is anyone who can know workaround or the solution for this problem ?

Thank you,

Laces


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