Hello -

I'm trying to reimage a few Windows 7 machines and I would like to use USMT hardlink to capture the users data.
Here is my current setup.

* SCCM 2012 R2 / MDT 2013

Client machine has 1 hard disk with two partitions

Partition1 Primary 1GB load with DaRT (No drive letter assigned and hidden)

Partition 2 Primary loaded with Windows 7 SP1

I setup a simple task sequence that the user can launch.

The task sequence launches and run USMT and saves the userstate to the _SMStaskSequnce directory then reboots into winpe
The Apply OS runs and trys to install the OS to the Dart Partition.

If I hit F8 and take a look at the drive it shows the Dart Drive as C and the Windows 7 drive as D.
I have added the set the variable "OSDPreserveDriveLetter" to false but that didn't not help

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

There's a procedure for replacing the recovery WinRE adding DaRT documented well here during OSD:

http://dcthegeek.blogspot.com/2012/11/dart-8-windows-8-via-sccm-2007-osd.html

even though it talks about Win8 the same should be true for Windows 7 using DaRT 7.0 instead of 8.0.

• Edited by LB_3 16 hours 43 minutes ago edt

There's a procedure for replacing the recovery WinRE adding DaRT documented well here during OSD:

http://dcthegeek.blogspot.com/2012/11/dart-8-windows-8-via-sccm-2007-osd.html

even though it talks about Win8 the same should be true for Windows 7 using DaRT 7.0 instead of 8.0.

• Edited by LB_3 Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:35 PM edt

I took a look at the web link and I already have that process to recreate the Dart partition

The problem I have now is after USMT runs and the system reboots.  WinPE assigns the C drive to the dart partition and the OS keeps getting installed to the D drive which was originally the C drive.

Still looking for some help on this one.

Thanks

• Edited by Jim101a 22 hours 34 minutes ago

I took a look at the web link and I already have that process to recreate the Dart partition

The problem I have now is after USMT runs and the system reboots.  WinPE assigns the C drive to the dart partition and the OS keeps getting installed to the D drive which was originally the C drive.

Still looking for some help on this one.

Thanks

• Edited by Jim101a Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:03 PM

Did you try to set Destination as Specific Disk and Partition option in Apply Operating System Image step in task sequence. Choose Disk as 0 and partition as 2

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes I tried that but partition 2 is assigned the D drive while in WinPe.  I also tried setting it using my C drive variable name but it still installs windows to the D drive.

What about setting OSDPreserveDriveLetter=True , and then use variable C:\ to apply OS image if your  Win7 was on c:\  ?

I tried that but at the time of the OS deployment the C drive is still used by the Dart Partition and the install fails because there is not enough space.

My workaround is to delete the Dart recovery partition while in PE and reboot for the process to continue.

• Marked as answer by Jim101a 14 hours 29 minutes ago

I'm glad you got it solved. The link I gave showed how to make the dart / WinRE partition mapped to the S drive then hidden so during the apply OS step it doesn't have any issue seeing it as the first formatted drive to apply OS to. I've followed this procedure fine with Win 7 and Dart 7 in a task sequence without any problem.

I didn't see this thread that you were still having issues until now. Anyway you got it solved.

My workaround is to delete the Dart recovery partition while in PE and reboot for the process to continue.

• Marked as answer by Jim101a Friday, March 14, 2014 9:02 PM