Trying to deploy Windows 11 25H2 using FOG always leads to the Windows recovery screen

[lucamathuse]

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[Florent]

Have you sysprep your Windows before capture ? (i don’t think it’s related but it’s important to do this, if no need nothing just launch C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe and coche generalize, shutdown)

I use “Multiple Partition Image All Disks” just for the upload, and after upload done, i set “single disk resizable” for the deploy.

[lucamathuse]

@Florent I do sysprep before capture but I used the GUI version of it that Windows offers me in the admin login. I click on “generalize” and “shutdown” and wait for it to do it’s thing but I’ll do the CLI version of it the next time. And did I understand that right, you use “Multiple Partition Image - All Disks” and before deploying you set it to “Single Disk - Resizable”?

[Florent]

@lucamathuse said in Trying to deploy Windows 11 25H2 using FOG always leads to the Windows recovery screen:

And did I understand that right, you use “Multiple Partition Image - All Disks” and before deploying you set it to “Single Disk - Resizable”?

Exactly

[lucamathuse]

@Florent okay and what exactly does it do? I mean that can’t really work, can it? I capture it one way and deploy it another.

I just tried it again with Single Disk for both capturing and deployment on a clean Win 11 install. I ran these commands:
reagentc /disable (I removed the recovery partition because I read somewhere that it can cause troubles when capturing), powercfg -h off and C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /shutdown.

The captured image looked like this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject    4 Apr  7 08:18 d1.fixed_size_partitions
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject 1.0M Apr  7 08:18 d1.mbr
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject  697 Apr  7 08:18 d1.minimum.partitions
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject   20 Apr  7 08:18 d1.original.fstypes
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject    0 Apr  7 08:18 d1.original.swapuuids
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject  697 Apr  7 08:18 d1.partitions
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject  697 Apr  7 08:18 d1.shrunken.partitions
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject  15M Apr  7 08:18 d1p1.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject  767 Apr  7 08:18 d1p2.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject fogproject 3.3G Apr  7 08:23 d1p3.img.000

I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to capture an image of Windows 11. I just need to do it once and then never again.

[Florent]

@lucamathuse
I don’t remember if it’s related to Win11 we have this in our postdownload script :

if [ -n "$hd" ]; then
	if [ "$hd" = "/dev/nvme0n1" ] ; then
		partsys=$hd'p2'
		partdata=$hd'p3'
	else
		partsys=$hd'2'
		partdata=$hd'3'
	fi

We use Virtualbox, install classic WIndows 11, disable Bitlocker, and capture with FOG with image set to “Multiple Partition Image - All Disks”
My folder capture :

d1.mbr
d1p1.img
d1p2.img
d1p3.img
d1p4.img
d1.partitions
d1.size

Maybe try capture debug to see which partition FOG get during your capture