Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sysprep - Description of the Windows XP Corporate Deployment tools and documentation

Sysprep
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321880

The Windows XP Corporate Deployment tools contain the following tools and documentation:
Deploy.chm: This is the "Microsoft Windows Corporate Deployment Tools User's Guide" documentation.
Ref.chm: This is the "Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Reference" documentation.
Factory.exe, Setupcl.exe, and Sysprep.exe: These are the Sysprep components. Sysprep is a tool that prepares the hard disk on a source computer for duplication on other computers with the same hard disks.
Oformat.com: This is a command-line tool to create a volume that uses the FAT32 file system. The tool creates a FAT32 volume with clusters that are aligned in an optimal way for later conversion to the NTFS file system.
Cvtarea.exe: This is a command-line tool to create files and to analyze the placement of those files on a volume that uses the FAT32 or FAT file system. You can use this tool to create a contiguous file in a specific location on the disk. This may be useful if your manufacturing processes requires you to format a hard disk with the FAT or FAT32 file system before you convert the hard disk to the NTFS file system. You can use the Cvtarea tool to create a reserved, contiguous, placeholder file that is to be used for the NTFS metadata files after the conversion. This causes the resulting file system to be less fragmented and more efficient.
Setupmgr.exe: This is the Setup Manager Wizard. You can use this to create or to modify the files that control an unattended Setup.
Readme.txt: This is the Readme documentation for the Windows XP Corporate Deployment tools.

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