Windows 10: Windows ICD Hard Drive Partitioning

I have created my Windows ICD Build that I am deploying and it works, but I have one thing I need to accomplish. I want to partition the Hard Drive into a O/S partition C: & Data Partition Z:
My initial thought was to boot the target computer with a WindowPE flash Drive and use Diskpart to partition the hard drive prior to running my Windows ICD Flash Drive build installer.
Currently the Window ICD Installer completely wipes the hard drive and installs the O/S with my Customization's (completely unattended). What I want is for the installer to leave the Data Partition (Z*Smile untouched. There will be files within the Z: partition i need to stay if or when we need to rebuild the computer using the Windows ICD installer. Is there a way to make my Windows ICD build just install to the c partition and not overwrite the z: partition? I need this partition to remain after every rebuild

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Bootmgr is missing message or black screen with blinking cursor or Your PC/Device needs to be repaired (Error code: 0xc0000098) or error code: 0xc0000102

If Windows loads with the second hard drive disconnected and fails to load with it connected, then check to see if there is a "System" partition on the 2nd drive. If there is then delete the System partition on the 2nd hard drive.

Only the Windows drive (1st hard drive) should have a 'System' partition as the contents of this partition tells the computer where the C:\Windows partition is located.

 

Creating partitions for removable disks in Windows.

See this article for instructions how to partition an external drive:

Partition a Hard Drive for macOS Time Machine and Windows 10 Backups

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/partition-hard...

 

If a solution is not found, I recommend making a full image of that data partition onto external media using any one of several excellent backup/restore programs. Then after the rebuild, partition the hard-drive as to what you want for C and Z, restore that image onto Z.

 

The only problem is that I want to keep the data in Z current at the time of rebuild. If I image the z partition it will only restore the image that was taken and not the current data in the partition.

 

I read somewhere that the option to create Production Media (as opposed to Clean) gives more options to add test scripts so maybe other scripts could be added in that option? I really don't know though.

This page also suggests you can save your image as a FFU file (I never got that to work but haven't tried since ADK 1511) and then deploy with a DISM command, which presumably gives more control if you change some of the DISM parameters(?) But it's not as user friendly as inserting a bootable USB stick and letting it run.
Lab 1: Customize and install Windows using the Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (ICD)

Where G:\MyFFUImage.ffu is the file location of the FFU file. [/quote]

 

Correct, you would have to ensure you made a full image of Z just before you did a rebuild. Actually, that backup would be one more fail-safe if anything went wrong doing it any other way *Smile

 

These computers will be going to a customer site, where they will not be performing any backups and we wont have access to do either. We will provide them with the USB Installer Flash Drive create by us with the Windows ICD. Currently this install wipes the entire hard drive and silently install everything back, which is my basic problem. I just tried running WindowsPE to partition the Hard Drive into the partitions before using the USB Installer. I create the 2 partitions, but the Windows ICD flash Install still overwrites the entire disk and I lose my z partition. Maybe there just isn't a way to do this through Windows ICD. I am going to submit a support ticket through Microsoft to see what they provide.

 

I'll be interested to see what they come back with.

 

They created a case, now I am waiting for a contact. I will update here if/when I get some help.