I am working with trying to image new PCs (HP ProOne 400 G2 20-inch Non-Touch All-in-One) locally.
One idea that we want to test is to boot the PC out of the box and create a partition from the C: drive. This is a separate partition, we called it I:
After that, we copied the image that we wanted to used from an external hard drive onto the new I: drive.
Next, we restarted the PC using a USB Ghost bootable drive that we already had. We selected to image from disk with the image from the I: drive. Ghost then asked if we wanted to preserve the image or delete it after deployment. We told it to preserve the image.
It then opened a new black screen and asked us to use a -preservedest switch in the command console.
I'm new to IT so I'm not exactly sure how this works. I went to list of ghost switches on the symantec website. It came up with a -preserveifexists switch. I'm just wondering how exactly to implement this.
Can the new filepath be the same as the path that we are imaging from? Can I just tell it to preserve the entire I: Partition and add it back to the same location? I apologize if my wording is a bit confusing, as I am somewhat confused myself.
Thanks.