Deleting Disks from Computers

Deleting disks implies the deletion of the corresponding format jobs and corresponding logical drive letters. All of the package jobs assigned to the computers are also deleted.

When you initially assign a hardware job, if you accidentally add a disk where no corresponding physical disk exists, you can delete the disk before assigning the operating system software to the computers.  You can also delete an existing disk has been physically removed from the computers.

CCM always deletes the last disk that was added to the computer. You cannot select a specific disk for deletion and you cannot delete Disk #0.

WARNING: If the selected computers do not have the same number of disks, you may accidentally remove the wrong disk from one or more of the computers.

NOTE: The intent of working with multiple computers is to achieve identical results across a large number of computers and to avoid the necessity of entering identical information many times. To take advantage of this functionality when deleting a disk you should make sure that all the CCM computers you select have the same number of disks.

To delete disks from computers:

  1. In the Scope pane, expand <All Computers> to display the computers in the Result pane.

  2. In the Result pane, select then right-click the computers.

  1. Click Configure Disks.

The Configure Disks: Multiple Computers dialog box, opens and displays a tab for each disk with the current partitioning and formatting configuration.

  1. Right-click the Disk Summary button and select Delete Disk.

CCM deletes the disk tab for the last disk displayed in the Configure Disks: Multiple Computers dialog box.

  1. Click OK.

If the computers already have software assigned to any disk, a confirmation dialog box appears.

  1. Click Yes to confirm the deletion of packages installed on the deleted disk.