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@EAHarvey Can you post the content of the three text files d1.partitions, d1.minimum.partitions and d1.fixed_size_partitions from this image you deployed here. We’ll see if there is something specific in the partition layout that might cause the problem.

bcdboot D:\windows /s Z: /f ALL

I have not used bcdboot too much but I kind of wonder about the drive letters…

@EAHarvey FOG supports basically all iPXE can support and then some in terms of UEFI. Do note that this does not mean all hardware will function as expected, since a lot of manufacturers decide to ignore the spec and do their own thing or some devices are so new the iPXE drivers aren’t updated for them yet.

Still, in most cases, it will work wonderfully.

@joe-schmitt Yes! I just tested most of the skins and it seems to work perfectly. Thanks for the update and the hard work!

@EAHarvey Shall we mark this solved or are you still looking into getting FOG setup within Drobo?

Perfect brother. Thanks so much. I will continue testing. I’m working on another Virtual Box for our training room. I’ll keep you updated.

@Tom-Elliott said in Windows 7 Activation issues:

So MAK has a limit, typically, of 25 or 50 keys to the server it’s activating against. Is the activation limit possibly met?

Depends on the site. My last job asked Microsoft to raise our limit from 10,000 to 20,000 activations. They gave it to us, no questions asked.

So in simpler terms:

“Technically yes, FOG going to try to include such a feature----probably not.”

We can close this. Moving on.

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@EAHarvey You might want to check your /images folder contents, though.

The way image capture works is they get placed in /images/dev first and then at the end they get moved to /images and renamed to the proper destination name.

This moving process uses FTP, failure to move them indicates some sort of issue with that, most likely credentials, but if you’ve recently run the (trunk) FOG installer, this should already be corrected in the mean time.

@Wayne-Workman said in Bootable USB drive to re-image a machine:

Conezilla is better suited for what you’re wanting - it already can do imaging from a local flash drive.

I agree here, you would be better served by tweaking the clonezilla code to make it a bit more automated and friendly by a nice menu program and to make it use the usb stick directly as a stroage device. In this situation you would only want a deploy option for out in the field.

@EAHarvey said:

Disk is good to go.

Does this mean you found the issue and fixed it? Please tell us more about it. And what about the commands I requested?

@Tom-Elliott ok roger that. Thanks so much.

Just wanted to update. I have been busy here at work so I have not been able to do anymore testing on the init files. So sorry for the delay.

@EAHarvey said:

@Wayne-Workman So you’re talking about when i initially upload the image correct?

Not really. I’m talking about you creating your own task type. To be honest I’ve not used this plugin yet, but I’m fairly sure it’s possible to do what I’ve described.

@Wayne-Workman said:

if we could ever get the forum’s search feature to actually work. 🙂

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@dcorpening You would probably be best off upgrading to FOG Trunk. It would also be helpful if you could post a short video of the boot process so we can see it, or a series of pictures of the last thing the computer is saying before exiting to the local Windows.