1210344 - initial disk format step lost in MDT changes?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: General, task)

Description

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

When I went to reimage the w732 machines I had shut down in the middle of the MDT process earlier this week, none of them completed a touchless install because they were all stuck at the screen saying there was already an MDT install in progress in a bad state (and waiting for human intervention).

If I recall correctly, we had an initial fdisk step that wiped any stale MDT installs in progress to avoid this state in the past. Did that get lost with the recent changes to MDT to support windows 10?

I cleared most of them by hand but left t-w732-ix-203 in this state for further investigation.

Comment 1

[Q]

The hard disk image is still in MDT/WDS however the order of operations has changed in mdt 2013 so the dirty bit check happens first.

Comment 2

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

That's disappointing... Any way to work around that?

Comment 3

[Q]

I can alter the unattended xml on the winpe image to get this in place. Doing that now

Comment 4

[Q]

Rolled in for x86 testing on 203.

Comment 5

[Q]

mounted the LTI wim and altered the order option in the below code in unattended.xml to 1

	        <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
	            <Description>Lite Touch PE</Description>
	            <Order>2</Order>
	            <Path>cscript.exe X:\Deploy\Scripts\ZTICleanSetupInprogress.vbs</Path>
	        </RunSynchronousCommand>

Looking good on 203. WIll need to do the same for x64

Comment 6

[Q]

Changes rolled for x64 which covers windows 10/8/2008

Comment 7

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

DId we also test on XP? I assume that it will function as it did for w7, but testing is a good verification.

Comment 8

[Q]

Not yet it is on the list. However, the win pe environment is exactly the same ( uses the same boot media file)  for xp and 7 

Q

Comment 9

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

I tried reimaging t-w864-ix-181, but it appears to just be sitting there at the cmd.exe window.

Comment 10

[Q]

This has been re added and a low level format added for win 10.