MDT Image Restore Failure

[ITGURU]

I've setup and been configuring MDT for Windows 11 deployment over the weekend.

 

Created a Win11 VM on Hyper-v captured it, restored it successfully and added to network and all working fine as expected.

 

Today have restored the image to a bare metal machine, and got the error below.

 

 

 

I then created a new image on a physical PC, captured it , restored it, but then got the same error.

 

please could anyone advise/assist why capture/restore on VM works, but capture, restore or restore of any image to physical hardware fails with the above error in photo?

 

thanks.

[ITGURU]

Just an update - I have restored the physical machine captured image back to the Hyper-V VM and that's restored absolutely fine, so appears to be an issue restoring any image to a physical machine.

[3s-gtech]

Do you need to do this with fat images? I ditched fat when I went to MDT back in 2020, and have never missed it. Don't get me wrong, thin is sometimes slow - but being able to update images in modules is awesome. My task sequences just get a new WIM in them when one comes out.

[snagrat]

That is a known error with MDT and the ADK version when used with BIOS devices.

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-deployments-fail-with-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-on-computers-with-bios-type-firmware-70557b0b-6be3-81d2-556f-b313e29e2cb7

 

But thin images is still the way to go, easy to change OS media when there is an update etc.

 

If it is a newer machine then may be worth resetting the BIOS to factory settings to ensure stuff like SecureBoot hasn’t been disabled in the past

Edited September 18, 2023 by snagrat

[Jobos]

There’s a fix for that something like running a script part way through the task and had it myself with MDT. I’ll dig it out tomorrow.

[ITGURU]

This is windows 11 and EUFI BIOS

 

That is a known error with MDT and the ADK version when used with BIOS devices.

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-deployments-fail-with-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-on-computers-with-bios-type-firmware-70557b0b-6be3-81d2-556f-b313e29e2cb7

 

But thin images is still the way to go, easy to change OS media when there is an update etc.

 

If it is a newer machine then may be worth resetting the BIOS to factory settings to ensure stuff like SecureBoot hasn’t been disabled in the past

[snagrat]

What ADK version you using?

[bknaggs]

All drivers for the PC available for both Windows 11 and Windows PE?

[ITGURU]

What ADK version you using?

 

ADK - 10.1.22621.1

ADK Windows PE 10.1.19041.1

 

both are versions for windows 11 22H2 and thats the version i'm deploying/capturing.

[Jobos]

May not be relevant with the fix @snagrat posted but I'm using the same version of MDT I started using with win10 and I added the script when I got the same error. I've left the script in place and it still works with win11.

 

It's an old video but it works.

[stevewill6]

Had the same problem yesterday with windows 11 deployment to "older laptops"

 

Added the check to the task sequence and now working well.