[wds] HP Envy WDS failure

[jmak]

I have MDT and WDS set up and running for a range of Dell devices and MS Surface Pros, but I can't reply to HP Envy devices.

 

PXE boot works and I get beyond choosing my Task Sequence, but it fails at OS deployment with:

 

Disk (0) was not found. Unable to continue. Possible Cause: Missing storage driver.

Failure (7711): Disk OSDDiskIndex can not be found

Litetouch deployment failed, Return code = -2147467259 0x80004005

Disk(0) was not found. Unable to continue

Possible Cause: Missing storage driver

 

I have tried downloading the driver from HP and also extracted all drivers from a working device and added them to WDS, but I still get the same failure.

 

Is it worth adding them to MDT instead? If so, does anyone have a good guide on how to do it?

 

Any other ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

[MYK-IT]

You'll need to add the required HP storage driver(s) to Windows PE profile.

 

Configurations can vary depending how your MDT is setup, but if you 'right click' your MDT Deployment Share and select 'properties', then click 'Windows PE' tab. Select 'x64' as platform then click 'Drivers and Patches' tab. You will then find out which 'selection profile' is being used for your Windows PE.

 

With that knowledge, browse to Deployment Share > Out-of-Box Driver > {name of selection profile}

 

You will then need to import the required HP storage driver(s) to this folder.

 

Once complete, right click your Deployment Share and select 'Update Deployment Share'. Should be OK with defaults (optimise the boot image updating process) and click next. Once completed, a new and updated WinPE image (e.g. LiteTouchPE_x64.wim) should have been generated located within {path of deployment share}\Boot\LiteTouchPE_x64.wim.

 

Open up Windows Deployment Services > Servers > {name of wds server.domainname} > Boot Images and either 'select and replace image' existing Boot Image, or 'Add Boot Image' etc. and browse to the newly created WIM image.

 

And try PXE booting your HP device(s) again.

 

(For reference, I have used Dell's WIN PE 10 driver pack, and it has worked for non-Dell laptops too without any modification - However, we don't have any HP workstations etc, so you'd probably still need to manually add any missing drivers)

Edited November 21, 2022 by MYK-IT

[jmak]

Thanks @MYK-IT

 

All good now [emoji41]