2 physical drives = problem

[m0ck]

I had very unpleasant situation last week.

I was deploying Windows 7 (XP to 7 upgrade with hardlinking USMT) on machine with 2 physical drives. It was the first machine with 2 physical drives we deployed OS with SCCM on.

The OS image was applied to the wrong physical drive and as you may guess, caused data loss of that employee.

 

After trying to reproduce the situation, what i've seen was that after the machine boots to WinPE, it decides to switch by himself between the drives.

The first HDD becomes second, and the second first, and that way the image was applied to the wrong destination.

In TS the apply image is set to apply the image to the first available partition.

 

Is there any way to prevent this kind of behavior other than specifying the image to be applied to specific disk and partition? (Haven't tried that tho if it matters).

 

Thanks in advance,

Dynamitry

[anyweb]

you could create a check for the boot.ini file or something similar and base the deployment drive on that ?

[m0ck]

hmm... didn't think of that, i'll try.

 

 

[brakmat]

hmm... didn't think of that, i'll try.

 

 

 

Were you able to fix this issue? If so, how?

I am having a similar issue with multiple partitions and the Task Sequence trying to apply the OS to the wrong one.