HP PROBOOK 450

[crustyjeff]

We just received 40 HP Probook 450. Half have a 512 SSD, half have 256 SSD. I created the master image on a machine with a 512GB hard disk and I chose resizable. My 512 machines deploy no problem. However when I deploy on the 256GB machines I get the following error:

[Sebastian Roth]

@crustyjeff

Please try the following:

• Schedule a new deploy for a host with 256 GB SSD but before you click “Create Task” tick the checkbox for debug.
• Boot up the client and hit ENTER twice to get to the shell - run command fog and step through till you hit the error.
• Now back in the shell manually run sgdisk -gl /images/Accessing2019/d1.mbr /dev/nvme0n1, take a picture and post that here.

As well, can you please post the contents of the text file /images/Accessing2019/d1.partitions you have on your FOG server.

You might find this helpful: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13906/ssd-fails-at-restoring-partition-tables-gpt-with-error-code-4

[crustyjeff]

Here is D1.partitions data:

label: gpt
label-id: CE5B249F-84C2-4D00-A031-F39148FE43AE
device: /dev/nvme0n1
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 1000215182

/dev/nvme0n1p1 : start= 2048, size= 532480, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=B8586629-C43F-4CA9-AF7B-CFBC5232B042, name=“EFI system partition”, attrs=“GUID:63”
/dev/nvme0n1p2 : start= 534528, size= 32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=9339B7EA-F20B-4994-B339-3DE18D26F672, name=“Microsoft reserved partition”, attrs=“GUID:63”
/dev/nvme0n1p3 : start= 567296, size= 997793792, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=6539D77B-28A8-48B5-94EF-2F696A12F6B4, name=“Basic data partition”
/dev/nvme0n1p4 : start= 998361088, size= 1843200, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=61D808EA-CF03-46A5-8B36-DE5A2C5550A4, name=“Basic data partition”, attrs=“RequiredPartition GUID:63”

[Sebastian Roth]

@crustyjeff said in HP PROBOOK 450:

/dev/nvme0n1p4 : start= 998361088, size= 1843200, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=61D808EA-CF03-46A5-8B36-DE5A2C5550A4, name=“Basic data partition”, attrs=“RequiredPartition GUID:63”

This partition number 4 is a recovery partition which FOG doesn’t move on the disk. So it’s unable to shrink your main Windows partition.

The smallest size you can shrink this layout to is about 477 GB (998361088 + 1843200 sectors * 512 byte per sector). Do you really need that recovery partition if you have an image that you can clone out to all your machines??

[crustyjeff]

@Sebastian-Roth No, so how can i remove the recovery partition from the clone?

[Sebastian Roth]

@crustyjeff said in HP PROBOOK 450:

No, so how can i remove the recovery partition from the clone?

Well just delete it from your master host, maybe even expand the third partition using the Windows disk management view and re-capture the image.

Probably a good idea that you leave the image Accessing2019 on your FOG server and create a new image definition for the capture you take after removing the forth partition. This way you can always go back to the original state in case you figure that you’d need it for some reason.

Deleting partitions is kind of a dangerous task. Do it on your own risk and if unsure take another backup copy of the whole system before you go ahead!