So more often than not you’d conduct this purging work once the VM is build.įor years I was religiously following this excellent guide for various OSs to deal with the partition removal which, through a bunch of steps, one can remove the partition successfully. This can be done during initial OS install, but more often than not, consultants are given an MDT orchestrated image to work with (unless dealing with App Layering where that almost never works… so build from ISO). When dealing with PVS and vDisk images, this may eventually bite you in the rear end either causing problems performing an initial vDisk creation, or through the inevitable reverse imaging process when one needs to update VM tools drivers for the NIC (unless you’re sneaky and do a cusotm install of the drivers, and circumvent updating the driver, which kind of defeats the point of VM tools updates).įor these reasons, we generally have recommended removing the system reserved partition from images as part of their build process to avoid issues down the road. By default, a Windows OS will install itself creating a system reserved partition.
