[COLOR=#000000]Actually, figured it out. Just a heads up, if anyone gets caught on that screen that says Checking system for video performance, restore your last snapshot. As per Rumbo over at MSFN,[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]“My advice is to run the System Assesment Test manually (WinSAT.exe dwm) or from the GUI (click Start, type [/FONT][I][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#5d5d5d]performance[/COLOR][/FONT][/I][FONT=tahoma], click on [/FONT][B][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#5d5d5d]Performance Information and Tools[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][FONT=tahoma], and run the assessment), rename the resulting xml in c:\windows\performance\winsat\datastore\ (it will have DWM as part of the name) changing whatever is in parentheses on the name to Prepop. For example: 2012-04-26-13.45.043.### DWM.Assesment ([/FONT][B][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#5d5d5d]First assessment[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][FONT=tahoma]).WinSAT.xml will need to be renamed as 2012-04-26-13.45.043.### DWM.Assesment ([/FONT][B][FONT=tahoma][COLOR=#5d5d5d]Prepop[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][FONT=tahoma]).WinSAT.xml.”[/FONT][/COLOR]

I’m using VirtualBox, latest version with the extension pack loaded so I can PXE boot. I couldn’t get the image to deploy at all when using the single partition. I tried the multiple partition on the last attempt and it actually deployed, its just stuck at the WinSAT checking your video settings part of the sysprep.

And one last thing. Is there anyway under the sun for me to be able to use the Single Partition (Resizeable) option? We have a multitude of machines in our district. Having to constantly resize them once we’ve imaged them would be a colossal PITA.

Alrighty. Went back and redid it again. This time, I image to the 390 and it goes through Sysprep. Now my problem is that it hangs on Setup is checking video performance. It does this on multiple machines and on my VM. Any suggestions?

Alrighty. I’ve been beating my head against this for the last 4 days now. I’ve created my VM in VirtualBox, verified that its using IDE instead of SATA and have created and recreated my Win7 image 5 separate times now thinking that I’ve just messed something up. The image works flawlessly on my VM. It uploads just fine. It downloads to an Optiplex 390 just fine. But when I boot the machine, it simply states Missing Operating System.

I’ve created a Win7 image with just one partition. The 100MB partition, I get rid of when initially installing. The only things I’ve installed on the image itself are updates and Office 2010. That’s it. Any suggestions out there?

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boot_looping_and_Chainloading[/url]

You’ve got to setup chain loading for the latest Dell machines to be able to boot to the hard drive once you’ve PXE booted into FOG.