What should you do before you apply the image?

You are deploying a custom Windows 7 system image to a new computer.

You perform the following tasks:

– Start the new computer by using the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

– Connect to a shared network location that contains the Windows 7 image file

You need to apply the Windows 7 image to the computer.

What should you do before you apply the image?
A . Mount the image.
B . Configure Windows Firewall.
C . Configure and format the hard disk drive.
D . Initialize the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store.

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Answer: C

Explanation:

Deploying from a Network Share

After you have imaged your reference installation, you can deploy the image onto new hardware (one or more destination computers). To access a network share as an installation source from the client computer, you need to boot the client computer into the Windows Preintallation Environment (Windows PE) environment. The Windows PE environment is a minimally featured operating system that allows you to access diagnostic and maintenance tools as well as access network drives. To deploy an image from a network share, you use the Diskpart tool to format the hard drive of a destination computer . Then you copy the image from the network share and begin the installation by running Setup.exe.