Example of Deployment Solution job to boot to automation and wipe a drive

Products

• Deployment Solution

Issue/Introduction

There is a need to wipe a disk in WinPE with a Deployment Solution Job/tasks.

There are several ways to accomplish this. However, this article includes an example of a job that has proven successful to wipe the drive of a computer while in WinPE/Automation without using custom scripts.

NOTE: Encrypted hard drives may cause the wipe process to fail. Some vendors secure the encrypted hard drives to avoid unauthorized formatting / wiping of the hard drive.

Environment

Deployment Solution 8.x

Resolution

This is an example only and should be used/modified at your own risk:

• Create a new Deployment job and then select a new 'Boot To' task. The 'Boot To' task should have the desired boot environment selected for booting to WinPE as shown here:

• Add a new 'Erase Disk' task to the job and select the desired disk and erase settings

• Once this task has been added, an additional 'Boot To' or Imaging tasks can be performed.

NOTE: You may get the following error message similar to the following if you are trying to run the task while in production; this must be done while in Automation:

ErrorMessage: ClientWipeException occured 'Erasing all disks or system disk is not supported in production. Please use Boot To task to boot into PreOS', return code 0, location 'Tcube_ClientWipe.cpp:167'