Imaging without adding or deleting any data
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Q:
Shiva B. wrote: I'm creating an image with sysprep ready to run on first boot of the system. After having the image applied to it, I have no need for Image Safe Data, and I want ZEN Imaging to function as Ghost does: give me an exact replica of my master system without adding or deleting any data. I also don't want to have any information that was previously associated (via workstation registration or any similar process) with the system before imaging, magically appearing back into the system.
In other words once I image a system, I want ZEN to treat it as a brand-new system on the network, don't add/remove anything from it, and re-register it like new. Is this possible?
A:
There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. You need to understand that the information that is stored in the image-safe data store is not inserted into the file system or registry until the system is rebooted. Replacing the data is done by the Image Safe Data Agent. If your image does not have the agent installed, the data will not be updated.
You could also delete the data after the image comes down using zisedit. Then there would be no data to update.
Both of these would do what you are looking for.
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