Lee I tried your suggestion…no difference. Created the unattended file, stuck in the extendOS portion, ran sysprep using that file, and no luck. It deployed 1 percent of the second partition and stopped. I seem to be the only guy having this particular problem. I even imaged a different machine and then tried to deploy that image, and the same thing happened. Makes me think I am doing something wrong, but for the life of me I don’t know what. I’m super frustrated. Any other ideas out there?

[quote=“Lee Rowlett, post: 8021, member: 28”]if you need help composing the unattend.xml just follow step 4 in this tutorial
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url][/quote]

Perfect Lee…that is a big help. Thanks!

[quote=“Lee Rowlett, post: 8018, member: 28”]sorry, only just read your above post about not using an unattend.xml, i’d recommend just making a very basic one and add the above into it aswell just for testing :)[/quote]

Lee I will give it a try and update the forum with my results. Thanks!

Update - I defragged and ran chkdsk on the drive before running sysprep and imaging. I also used multiple partition/single drive. Same results. The behavior is still the same. The first partition (100MB) gets deployed instantly, but the actual Windows 7 partition gets to 1 or 2 percent and then freezes. I’ve tried deploying this image back to the system I actually used to create the image, and I’ve also tried deploying it to a completely different computer (an HP Z210). Same results on either system. Any other ideas? I really want/need to make this work.

[quote=“djm79, post: 8013, member: 1568”]we have Vostros 430 here and i know that the hard drive setting in the bios will cause it to hang I think I am using the ATA setting. But either way it worth a try and see it resolves your imaging problem.[/quote]

FYI…my system was already set at ATA

OK I will check on the bios setting as well. Thanks guys.

Hi Chad. I have not defragged, mainly because I am doing a test image and have only installed the OS with no updates. I didn’t think I would need to defrag but I’ll go ahead and run a defrag anyway on my next test. I’ll also give the multiple partitions a try. I am using this image for 5 other Vostros 430’s that are configured identically so it shouldn’t be an issue. I will report back to the forum with my progress. Thanks for the quick reply.

Hi all. I know I’m one of many to have issues with a Windows 7 imaging issue, but I have searched the forums and googled everywhere but still can’t resolve my issue. I am running Fog .32 on Ubuntu desktop 12.0.4. I am trying to image Windows 7 on a Dell Vostro 430. I have wiped the drive and done a clean Windows 7 install (100MB partition included). I perform my imaging task and it works without issue. I use NTFS single partition resizable when I do the imaging job. My problem is on deployment. When I run the deployment job, the 100MB partition is created, and then the second partition is started. It goes about 1 or 2 percent and then freezes. The job stops running and I am stuck. Any ideas? I have not run fogprep because I’ve read in many places that I don’t need to with Fog .32. I have run sysprep before imaging without an unattended.xml file (I’m just runing sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Rob