Hi, I have performed Vista Operating system deployment by SCCM on many systems and its working fine. Now, I need to perform OSD on a system whose OS is corrupted and having important data. What are the changes required? Requirements: Need complete data back after installation. During installation hard disk will be formated instead of repairing the windows. All the user setting will be available as they were. i am trying to design an OSD solution, through which there will no need to take backup manually before installation. Just deploy the task sequence and system will become as previous with complete data and settings. Regards

well a standard task sequence with usmt 3 intergation should take care of it, you'll need to setup a computer association between source and destination pcs and probably will have to add a custom step in your task sequence to do a chkdsk or similar My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady

Can you please define the custom steps which requires to add in task sequence?

well obviously you'll have to test this but a simple chkdsk command would be a Run Command Line Step such as cmd.exe /c CHKDSK "C:" /F /X My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady

Thank you. Can you please correct / suggest the task sequence steps. Install Operating System Restart in Windows PE Capture User State Partition disk Apply operating System Apply Windows Settings Apply Network Settings Apply Device Drivers Setup Operating System Setup windows and CinfigMgr Restore User State Install Updates Offline

please suggest.

any idea regarding the above mentioned task sequence?

Now, I need to perform OSD on a system whose OS is corrupted and having important data. What are the changes required? What does "corrupted" mean in that case? You can't capture any user state if you can no longer access the harddisk for example.

Corrupted means that the operating system is crashed. and if the user state can not capture in crashed operating system then whats are the steps of a system whose OS is working fine.

Are you designing this for a refresh or replace scenario? This particular machine - are you able to login to the system at all? If not, its prob best that you get the user data by plugging in the HDD to a second computer and manually copying it somewhere as you'll prob need to test a number of times to get USMT working correctly. You also mention you want to format the disk? If so, you can't use USMT 4 (I'd recommend you do use USMT 4) as using this requires deletion of all data (except those that are hardlinked) rather than a format. If i were you, i would create a default USMT TS and build it up from there. I then get rid of the format step and capture steps and give it a test. http://nikifoster.blogspot.com/

Oh and by default ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 only supports USMT 4 online capture - basically only captures within full Windows OS. Offline captures - those taken whilst in Win PE - aren't supported (I think you can do it with UDI but im not sure how).http://nikifoster.blogspot.com/

thanx alot for your response.

here's how to do an Offline in WinPE capture (it works very well) My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady