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@george1421 Hey, I just wanted to let you know that your FOS just saved me from going POSTAL.

I have successfully managed to upload and download an image; UEFI BIOS on the Zenbook still doesn’t recognize the USB-to-Ethernet adapter, but as soon as it boots into the FOS it recognizes it and works like a charm.

Cannot thank you enough for making this extremely simple and straightforward, even with the hiccup of the USB-to-Ethernet MAC being bound to one machine-- that’s not your fault, that’s just a hurdle that’ll come to pass by the sound of where the FOG Project is going-- even with that, really simple and straightforward.

Putting your FOS tutorial as a link for this topic: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image

@george1421
Yeah, I am bad at that.

So, we had an issue when we ordered SL3s - we couldn’t Capture an image from them, we would get an error on Capture about BitLocker needing to be disabled.

SL3s didn’t have a TPM setting in BIOS that you would normally turn off (They have Secure Boot), like you would do for a normal UEFI setup on say a Dell E6410 - so I searched around and came across that.

The two CMD commands:

powercfg -h off
shutdown /s /t 0

I’ve been using those for years now, because of the Sticky-bit issue and the Hibernation reason is lost to time - maybe it also had something to do with Sticky-bit, but I dont’ recall.

The two new commands for Powershell:

Disable-TpmAutoProvisoning
Clear-Tpm

This is all entirely for the purpose of disabling TPM like how you would in BIOS.
I don’t think doing the same thing on a Dell E6410 running Windows 10 would work - I would assume you would still need to disable TPM in the BIOS, but I have not tested that.

So if you had a device, like a Surface Laptop 3, that had the issue where TPM isn’t in the BIOS then hopefully clearing the TPM settings in Windows itself before Capturing the image fixes the issue - as it did for me.

So, problem: Cannot Capture an Image from an SL3: No TPM in the BIOS; keeps getting BitLocker error.
Solution: Disabling TPM in Windows via Powershell worked to Capture the image; no BitLocker error.

Hopefully that is a less confusing explanation of the post.