Manual
Imaging
Within this manual, you'll find instructions for utilizing the imaging feature and effectively interacting with the WipeOS System.
It is assumed that you have already installed the WipeOS server at your location and configured administration settings on the portal.
WINDOWS IMAGING
1. When windows first boots following installation, it'll present a language selection screen. At that screen, press Ctrl+Shift+F3. Windows will then boot into audit mode.
2. Windows will need to be updated to include the latest security patches. Open windows by searching for Windows Updates in the start menu search bar.
Allow windows to install all available patches and restart windows when windows updates prompts for it.
Upon finishing updates and a restart is no longer prompted. Bring up the Sysprep window open in the background. Verify Out of Box Experience (OOBE) is selected and verify Generalize is checked. Select shutdown and click OK. Windows will shutdown when the process is finished.
NOTE: Once the machine is powered down, boot the device into WipeOS
If you do not boot directly into WipeOS after the previous step, you will need to enter audit mode again, and reboot into OOBE mode with Generalize selected.
3. Once booted into WipeOS, select the Imaging.
Press the Details button next to the disk. This will show the information from the Windows installation. The 'Sysprep status' should say "Ready for Imaging".
4. Select the drive, and enter a name into the Image Name text field in the center of the screen. Press the Save to Appliance button.
Now the Windows image from that drive is saved to the appliance, and you can write it to any other drive in WipeOS. Select the Writing Windows button above to see that process. Saving a Windows image does not consume a credit. Only writing operations consume a credit.
Once you have an image saved on the WipeOS Appliance, you can select it from the Available Images dropdown menu in the center of the screen.
5. When the progress bar is green, it is complete. The main partition has been resized, the boot settings have been transfered, and it will boot into Windows.
Using imaging feature on macOS
1. This first step is to install MacOS on a machine. Hold the Command+R keys until you see the Apple logo or spinning globe. You may have to enter WiFi credentials
2. Once the machine is in recovery mode, select the Disk Utility option.
3. Create a new partition.
Close the Disk Utility and open the Reinstall MacOS. The device will reboot into the installer. Follow the prompts until you get to the Welcome screen.
4. Power down the machine, and boot into WipeOS. The drive will show up in Imaging. Click on the Details button to see information about the MacOS installed on the drive.
5. Select the drive, enter an image name, and press the Save to Appliance button.
The progress bar will appear, and update as we save the image to the WipeOS appliance.
When the progress bar is green, the image has been saved to the appliance.
6. WipeOS cannot resize MacOS images! You must save an MacOS image for each size of a drive.
For example, WipeOS cannot install a MacOS 512 GB image on to any other size drive, it must be another 512 GB drive. They use a proprietary partitioning scheme called APFS, which we cannot dynamically resize like we do for Windows.
Select the appropriate image from the dropdown menu Available Images. Then select the disk you want to image, and press Write to Disk
The progress bar will appear. Once the imaging is complete, the progress bar will turn green.
7. On the appliance, select the Imaging button at the top of the screen.
This will show you images saved onto the appliance. It also shows how much of the 1TB drive is being used by images at the top of the screen. If you dont' have any images saved to the appliance, there will be no images in the list.
You can rename images by clicking the Rename button next to the image name.
It will open a text input for you to rename the image. Assign the new name and press the Rename button again to save it.
The Info button shows all the information we have about the saved image, the drive it came from, and the machine it was imaged from.
If the machine was locked with an MDM lock of some sort, that will also show up under OS Data.
You can also delete images. But keep in mind that you cannot unde deleting images.
Once you delete an image, the appliance recalculates how much free space is left on the drive. If you accidentally delete an image, you will need to recreate it. The Waiting for Image at the bottom of the screen is the old imaging feature. We are going to deprecate that in the 2.4.17 release.
Please see the attached imaging documentation for a complete understanding of how to successfully image utilizing WipeOS: V.2.0 instructions pdf