How to deployment Win11 via PXE and can select disk manually

Question

I meet a problem that perplex me for a long time. I need to deploy Win11 system on some laptops, and wanna via PXE to do this job.
First I config this in WDS server like I do for Win10, but it not work. The "boot.wim" is no longer supported for Windows 11. So I try to use MDT kits help me make a Lite Touch boot image.
After a series of attempts, I successfully completed deployment tests on a new machines using MDT and WDS. But I can't do it for a computer which already have OS.
When I want to re-install OS, I don't want to re-partiton the disk, Just format C drive and DO NOT touch others. I found it is hard to do that.
I have many laptops from different vendor , different disk sizes, numbers and type(SSD or HDD), maybe different disk slot sequence.
Is there have some way, I can add a panel to manually select install partition in wizard? Or if MDT can't do this, some other tools can do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello @Charles

Thank you for your question and for getting in touch.

You can try OEM deployment on Windows 11 editions.

Prepare your lab environment

At this point, you should have your tools ready to go. At this point you should have:

A USB drive, formatted with two partitions:

A technical PC that has:

1) A folder called C:\temp\lab with the following media downloaded:a) Windows installation media
b) The latest version of Microsoft Office OPK
c) Language and optional features ISO
d) Inbox apps OPK or ISO app update
e) Windows ADK installer
f) Add-on WinPE ADK
g) Drivers for your image (if needed)
h) Deployment scripts

Install Windows ADK

The Windows ADK is a collection of tools that allow you to manage and deploy custom installations of Windows to new computers.

On the technician's PC:

1) If you have a previous version of the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK), please uninstall it.

2) Download the latest version of Windows ADK that matches the version of Windows you are installing.

3) Run the ADK installer to install the ADK with the following options:Deployment Tools
User State Migration Tool (USMT)
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

4) Install the WinPE add-ons for the ADK.

Check out the next steps in the full article below:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/oem-deployment-of-windows-desktop-editions?view=windows-11

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