
In this lab I used VMware workstation and i have three virtual PCs as a diagram.My task was capture the Reference PC windows partition and apply that image to target PC.For this we need windows PE disk. Also in this lab i used server PC as storage device. Inside the server PC I already created share folder and that share folder used for store the captured windows image.
Task1:Create windows PE disk
To create windows PE disk we need to download and install ADK kit.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=39982
Click Start, and type deployment. Right-click Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment and then select Run as administrator.
Create a working copy of the Windows PE files. Specify either x86 or amd64:


Create an ISO file containing the Windows PE files:

you can see the ISO file..

Task2: prepare reference PC for Capture
Run sysprep..


After the shutdown we need boot this PC with windows PE CD…

Set the boot order…


Task3: Capture reference PC
Now pc was booted with winPE…

Assign IP address for reference PC using netsh…

Map network drive with net use…

Check the windows partition drive letter…

Capture C drive to network share folder

Task4: apply captured image to target PC
Boot the target PC with windows PE disk…
Assign IP address for target PC using netsh…

Map network drive with net use…

We need to create partitions for windows installation. For that we used diskpart…
diskpart
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary size=300
format quick fs=ntfs label=”System”
assign letter=”S”
active
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label=”Windows”
assign letter=”C”
exit
Apply the captured image to windows partition..

Now we can check the C partition…

Use the BCDboot tool to copy common system partition files and to initialize boot configuration data:

Restart the target PC…
