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First post on appdeploy. I only signed up after Sydney Konference.

I noticed a few posts with people reporting that they get the error: "BOOTMGR is missing Press ctrl-alt-del to restart" after they apply a Win 7 image and reboot.

The reason why this happens has been posted elsewhere. In short Windows 7 needs a small system partition in addition to the main (data) partition.

The way I solved this problem was to create a preinstall task to create and assign the two partitions (system and data), and then a mid level postinstall task to get Win7 to recreate the boot files on the system partition before restarting.

In our case, the main image was harvested from D: and so our preinstall task is a diskpart script that creates and formats the 200Meg system partition, makes it active, and assigns it drive letter C:. Then creates and formats the main partition, and assigns it drive letter D:.

Then we deploy our System Image.

Then the mid level postinstall task runs a the bcdboot command based on the following Microsoft technet article to create the boot files in the system partition. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744347(WS.10).aspx

The code for both tasks is below.
DISKPART script for Preinstall task
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary size = 200
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs label="system" quick
assign letter = c
create partition primary
select partition 2
format fs=ntfs label="Windows7" quick
assign letter = d

BAT script for mid level postinstall task
bcdboot d:\windows /s c:

There is also a Kace KB article which shows a different way of working on this problem. http://www.kace.com/support/kb/index.php?action=artikel&cat=54&id=994&artlang=en

Hope this helps [:)]