SCCM 2012 Failing to create USB boot media

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bbroden

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SCCM 2012 Failing to create USB boot media Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:52 PM (permalink)

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Hi all,

We're in the midst of a SCCM 2007 to 2012 upgrade. I'm attempting to create a USB boot disk from the console on my Win 7 Enterprise x64 machine. I've followed all the directions I could find on the net regarding using DISKPART to prepare the USB stick (Dane-Elec 8GB.) No matter what I try, I always come up with an error saying "Media creation failed with error message: 'The device is not ready.' Refer to CreateTsMedia.log file to find more details."

I've referred to the log, but only find "Failed to create media (0x80070015)" with no explanation as to the cause. I'll attach the log file in case anyone sees anything odd. I've also followed along, watching my Temp folder, and I see the WIM file get created, so it seems to be writing correctly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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iglatz

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Re:SCCM 2012 Failing to create USB boot media Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:32 AM (permalink)

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As far as I can remember, this was a security issue. Check out the following.
You're either not local admin on the Windows 7 box or the account you've opened the console with doesn't have Full Administrator rights in SCCM. And an additional note I made:
When creating Offline Media ISO Files, the C: drive is used for temporary creation; therefore the C: drive should have at least 50GB disk space to allow creation of ISO files.
I hope this will help you to get it created, I finally succeeded, but that was in July last year.

Ingrid

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CAP Total Posts : 143 Scores: 0 Reward points : 34860 Joined: 12/9/2011 Status: offline	Re:SCCM 2012 Failing to create USB boot media Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:46 AM (permalink) 0 [This post was marked as helpful] I ran into this issue and gave up. I think its how windows 7 has the reserve partition. Its way easier to create a dvd/CD iso, diskpart the USB stick and use something like winrar or 7zip to open the ISO and copy the files to the USB stick. Carl Polk
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Re:SCCM 2012 Failing to create USB boot media Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:22 AM (permalink)

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Well...it appears I've found a workaround. It was suggested that I open up the ISO using PoerISO and copy the files directly to the flash drive. I tried this, but I still wasn't able to boot from the drive. I then tried extracting the files straight to the flash drive (not copying) and everything proceeded to work correctly! Apparently there is a large difference between copying and extracting.

Thanks to the people that sent me ideas!

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