Recapture a cloned disk

[Small0145]

Hello, i’m making a dual boot image (Win11/Ubuntu24)

I :

1. deployed our Win11 golden image on the computer (without booting to keep post install scripts)
2. installed Ubuntu alongside with a USB stick
3. shutdown
4. Capture

The issue is that it tells me that the ntfs partition is dirty and that i need to boot windows.

Is it possible to recapture a deployed image without booting once ? I’d like to have the postdeploy scripts to run on the final computer, not the one used to make the dual boot

[Tom Elliott]

@Small0145 powercfg /h off

Most of the time, the reason people see this is “shutdown” goes into a special mode called “Fastboot” which works similarly by flipping the dirty bit on the drive.

The command I posted here should prevent “fast log” so when you shutdown, the machine ACTUALLY powers off without any dirty bit.

[Small0145]

@Tom-Elliott the thing is, i did not boot on Windows, i deployed our syspreped golden image, so at first boot it will configure windows and install drivers.

[Tom Elliott]

@Small0145 Sure, but it still seems like the golden image had this issue. How it got there I don’t know. I would suggest attempting to boot windows, perform the chkdsk/scandisk as needed. Then shutdown (may need to re-sysprep) after running this command. Windows 11, to my knowledge, can be a little bit strange sometimes.

[Small0145]

@Tom-Elliott I fixed it by directly removing the dirty flag using Linux. sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/nvme...

We need to redo our golden image, so we will check at that time if we still get the same behavior.

Thx for the help !