{"id":321,"date":"2007-02-22T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/deploying-windows-over-an-existing-installation-using-sysprep-or-remote-installation-service-ris\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:54:03","slug":"deploying-windows-over-an-existing-installation-using-sysprep-or-remote-installation-service-ris","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/deploying-windows-over-an-existing-installation-using-sysprep-or-remote-installation-service-ris\/","title":{"rendered":"Deploying Windows Over an Existing Installation Using Sysprep or Remote Installation Service (RIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>Problem<\/b><br>\r\n<br>\r\nYou wish to use Sysprep and\/or Remote Installation Services (RIS) to\r\ndeploy Windows when each of the following conditions are true:<br>\r\n<ul><li>The target system has more than one partition.<br><br><\/li><li>You do not wish the non-Windows partition(s) to be altered by Windows setup.<br><\/li><\/ul>\r\n<b>Solution<\/b><br>\r\n<br>\r\nConfigure the Sysprep and\/or RIS answer file (e.g. <font face=\"Courier New\">sysprep.inf<\/font> or <font face=\"Courier New\">ristndrd.sif<\/font>)\r\nso that it includes the following two settings (along with the other\r\nsettings already present, according to your configuration):<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Courier New\">[SetupData]<br>ExtendOEMPartition = 0<br><br>[RemoteInstall]<br>Repartition = No<\/font><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe <b>ExtendOEMPartition = 0<\/b> setting prevents setup from extending the installation partition so that it fills up the entire hard drive.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe <b>Repartition = No<\/b> setting will prevent setup from deleting\r\nall partitions on the first drive of the client computer and\r\nreformatting the entire drive with the NTFS file system.<br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem You wish to use Sysprep and\/or Remote Installation Services (RIS) to deploy Windows when each of the following conditions are true: The target system has more than one partition.You do not wish the non-Windows partition(s) to be altered by Windows setup. Solution Configure the Sysprep and\/or RIS answer file (e.g. sysprep.inf or ristndrd.sif) so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1780],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127],"class_list":["post-321","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/321\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}