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Bootmgr missing when imaging E6520 with multiple hard drives installed
Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:29 AM
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Hi, One of our businesss purchased a number of laptops with a hard drive that is inserted into the DVD-ROM bay. I can deploy the OS to these systems without error when the DVD drive is installed, but when the alternate hard drive is installed, I get an error upon reboot stating the bootmgr is missing, because the internal hard drive is first in the boot order and CM is formatting, and then staging the boot media on secondary hard drive (the one in the modular bay). If I change the boot order in the BIOS so that the modular bay is first, the image deploys successfully. My question is, can I control where the boot image is being staged, and instruct the TS NOT to format that drive? I would like to leave that secondary hard drive alone. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide. Curt
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Re:Bootmgr missing when imaging E6520 with multiple hard drives installed
Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:52 PM
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What do you have specified as the destination under your "Apply Operating System" step in your task sequence? It sounds like you have the default selected - "Next available formatted partition". You may want to test with a specific drive and partition (i.e. disk 0, partition 1).
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Re:Bootmgr missing when imaging E6520 with multiple hard drives installed
Monday, January 30, 2012 10:04 AM
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That's what we have set. Thanks for the info, we'll look at a specific drive & partition.
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Re:Bootmgr missing when imaging E6520 with multiple hard drives installed
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:53 PM
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You can define the Disk Number and destination logical drive in your Task Sequence like what disk number you want to use for deployment and also you can manually add "Set Task Sequence Variable" in TS and define the Task Seq Variable as Destination logical driver and value is C: Drive.
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