Software Deployment

Hi folks,

New to Dell Kace here but I'm having some issues with capturing and deploying a Win7 x64 system image. I'm hoping that someone here could possibly help me out by pointing out where I've gone wrong as at this stage I'm pulling my hair out :(

Ok, here are the details. The workstation that I have captured contains 1 2TB drive that is partitioned into a 200GB C drive and a 1.66TB D drive.

I have succesfully been able to capture an image of the machine, getting both partitions and also the third hidden system partition of 100MB.

When I deploy the image, my script sets up all 3 partitions correctly and formats them. It looks like this:

select disk 0
clean

create partition primary size=100
select partition 1
assign letter="W"
active

create partition primary size=204800
select partition 2
assign letter="C"
active

create partition primary
select partition 3
assign letter="D"
active

exit

I have assigned letter W to partition 1 which is the hidden system partition. I then format all drives using seperate pre install tasks and they format correctly into NTFS for the C and D and FAT32 for the W.

I then do this as a post install while still in the kace boot environment:

bcdedit /store W:\boot\bcd /set {bootmgr} device partition=W:
bcdedit /store W:\boot\bcd /set {default} device partition=C:
bcdedit /store W:\boot\bcd /set {default} OSdevice partition=C:

Unfortunately, Windows does not boot. I get the BOOTMGR is missing error at this point. If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong I'd greatly appreciate the help.

Also, unrelated maybe, but I also have another annoying problem in that about half way through the deploy process, I lose video on the target machine meaning that I can't see the output on screen or the progress. I only know that it has finished deploying when the system reboots and I look at the log on the K2000. Anyone else experience this?

FYI, I'm booting the target machine from my KBE bootdisc.

Many thanks in advance,

Ronnie