Hi, When selecting our Windows 7 Professional imgae to deploy, I get the choice of 1-1 and 2-2? Can someone explain the exact difference between these images, I have a feeling it is something to do with bitlocker? Thanks Alistair

Hi, the 1-1 partition is used for boot files and recovery info, and is created by default. The second (2-2) partition is the one used for the Windows 7 installation. If you install from a DVD/Image on to a clean disk, it will create a 100mb partition for you. This will contain all the boot folder and associated files.My blogs: Henk's blog and Virtuall | Follow Me on: Twitter | View My Profile on: LinkedIn

Hi Henk, Thanks for the reply. So if we want to deploy the image with the 100MB partition and the main Windows partition which will be the c: drive, do we configure this within the task sequence? Configure 1st partition as 100MB and use image 1-1 and create additional partition and use image 2-2? Thanks Alistair

Don't capture or deploy the 100MB partition -- there is no need to as this partition has no bearing on actual OS operation and will cause your entire WIM to be copied to the target system twice during the task sequence.Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

Most of times I'm only deploy the partition used for the Windows 7 installation. So in this case select the second (2-2) partition in your task sequence. There's no need to keep the first partition actually. Just try it and have a look at the result.My blogs: Henk's blog and Virtuall | Follow Me on: Twitter | View My Profile on: LinkedIn

Thanks for the replies. I wantd the 100MB partition installed to allow for Bitlocker to be used in the future so I adjusted my task sequence: Partitioned 2 volumes - 100MB boot partition and volume 2 using 100% of available disk space Apply data image - Set volume 1 to apply image 1-1 Apply operating system - Deployed this to next available formatted partition and and applied image 2-2 This installed sucessfully with the required configuration

Beware of refreshes done on systems partitioned like this -- they will fail if you don't account for the partition. This is easy to work-around using a script (or MDT), but if you haven't done anything, a simple refresh TS on a system partitioned this way will fail because it will use your 100 MB partition to initially try to download things and fail because 100MB is not nearly enough to download anything.Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

Jason, Are you referring to a basic reinstall on a system that has the 100MB partition configured? We would likely just run the same TS or similar TS to partition the drive again before install. Thanks Alistair

Refresh scenarios in OSD do not reformat the drives because they preserve user data. If you are not going to do this and will always reformat/repartition the drive, then you won't ever have to account for this.Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com