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A System Deployment Image (aka SDI) is a file format used primarily with Microsoft products to contain an arbitrary disk image, including boot sector information.

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SDI features

SDI driver

SDI files can be mounted as virtual disk drives and assigned a drive letter if an SDI driver is available to allow this. A SDI driver is a type of storage driver and is commonly used with Windows XP Embedded.

SDI management

Microsoft provides a tool called the "SDI File Manager" (sdimgr.exe) which can be used for the purpose of manipulating SDI files. Some of the tasks which this tool facilitates are:

  • The creation of an SDI image file.
  • The creation of an SDI image file from an existing hard disk partition.
  • The verification of an existing SDI image.

SDI loader

The mechanism which allows for the creation, addition and removal of virtual disk drives. SDI Loader and Driver work with Disk BLOB.

See also

References

  • Saad Syed (2002-11). "RAM Boot Using SDI in Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1". Microsoft. Retrieved 2008-08-31. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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