Disk partition error

I'm trying to re-image a new model of PC we are getting from our vendor, OSD starts up OK, and the drive gets partitioned and formatted, but when it tries to proceed on to put the OS on the disk I get a 80004005 error.  When I look in my logs this is what I see:

 

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The task sequence execution engine successfully completed the action (Partition Disk 0) in the group (Install Operating System) with exit code 0
Action output: tem32\diskpart.exe" /s "X:\WINDOWS\TEMP\osddiskpart.txt"
Executing command line: "X:\WINDOWS\system32\diskpart.exe" /s "X:\WINDOWS\TEMP\osddiskpart.txt"
Process completed with exit code 0
Formatting partitions
Formatting drive C: with NTFS filesystem,method quick
Creating instance of service loader
Loading service
Waiting for service to initialize
Querying for software providers
Found a VDS software provider
Querying for IVdsSwProvider
Querying for packs
Found a VDS pack
Querying for IVdsPack
Querying for volumes
Found a VDS software provider
Querying for IVdsSwProvider
Querying for packs
Found a VDS pack
Querying for IVdsPack
Querying for volumes
Found a VDS volume
Querying for IVdsVolumeMF
Querying for access paths
Found a VDS pack
Querying for IVdsPack
Querying for volumes
Found a VDS volume
Querying for IVdsVolumeMF
Querying for access paths
Found a volume with access path 'C:\'
Querying for IVdsVolume
Querying for IVdsVolumeMF
OSDDiskPart.exe completed successfully.

 

The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Apply Operating System) in the group (Install Operating System) with the error code 2147500037
Action output: "%1" %*
Set command line: "OSDApplyOS.exe" /image:NUH00032,1
Not a data image
ApplyOSRetry:
TSLaunchMode: PXE
OSDUseAlreadyDeployedImage: FALSE
Searching for next available volume:
  Volume C:\ is a valid target.
Found volume C:!sSystemPart.empty(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\framework\tscore\diskvolume.cpp,128)
Unable to locate a bootable volume. Attempting to make C:\ bootable.
bBootDiskDefined == true, HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installcommon.cpp,677)
MakeVolumeBootable( pszVolume ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installcommon.cpp,759)
ConfigureBootVolume(targetVolume), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\applyos.cpp,364)
System partition not set
Unable to find the system disk
Failed to make volume C:\ bootable. Please ensure that you have set an active partition on the boot disk before installing the operating system.
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows). The operating system reported error 2147500037: Unspecified error

 

The task sequence execution engine failed execution of a task sequence. The operating system reported error 2147500037: Unspecified error

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I made sure that I had the correct drivers loaded in my boot image for the SATA hard drive.  This is a completely new design that is now using a Core i5 processor with a Intel DQ76SW motherboard.  I tried changing the SATA hard drive to IDE (Compatibility mode), but that did not help.

 

Any suggestions?

June 3rd, 2011 2:06pm

could this disc be the new advanced format drive ? maybe that's causing an issue ?: what version of WinPE are you using ?

if you try changing your diskpart step to do as follows instead does it work ?



Select disk 0
Create partition primary align=1024
Format fs=ntfs Quick
Active
Assign
Exit

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June 3rd, 2011 7:10pm

This is a newer model hard drive, however I tried to use a hard drive out of an older computer that the same image works with and I was still having the same issue.  If I remember correctly Win PE is 3.0, I'm blanking on how to check right now.

 

Where would I make those setting changes at?  Would I have to setup a custom command line as opposed to the default partitioning step?

June 3rd, 2011 7:55pm

create a custom partition step if the drive=42 and it should replace the standard step,

please test this as i'm interested in the result

if it's not an AFD drive issue and you are deploying XP then you could have issues with storage drivers being missing, what os are you deplo

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June 3rd, 2011 8:32pm

Thanks for the advice, I will give it a try on Monday morning and will post back and let you know.  For the moment this is only going to be for a Windows 7 PC, however, I might need to retrofit it for Windows XP.
June 3rd, 2011 8:38pm

Well, unfortunately, I tried the custom step, and it came back with the same error message:

 

The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Apply Operating System) in the group (Install Operating System) with the error code 2147500037
Action output: "%1" %*
Set command line: "OSDApplyOS.exe" /image:NUH00032,1
Not a data image
ApplyOSRetry:
TSLaunchMode: PXE
OSDUseAlreadyDeployedImage: FALSE
Searching for next available volume:
  Volume C:\ is a valid target.
Found volume C:!sSystemPart.empty(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\framework\tscore\diskvolume.cpp,128)
Unable to locate a bootable volume. Attempting to make C:\ bootable.
bBootDiskDefined == true, HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installcommon.cpp,677)
MakeVolumeBootable( pszVolume ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installcommon.cpp,759)
ConfigureBootVolume(targetVolume), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\applyos.cpp,364)
System partition not set
Unable to find the system disk
Failed to make volume C:\ bootable. Please ensure that you have set an active partition on the boot disk before installing the operating system.
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows). The operating system reported error 2147500037: Unspecified error

 

 

I'm going to go back and triple check that I have the drivers loaded for the SATA controller, but past that I am not sure what else I might be missing.

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June 6th, 2011 3:57pm

Hi,

 

The SCCM will try to check the disk partition from WMI and we are failed in this process.

 

When an active partition is created on a hard drive, it automatically becomes a bootable device if a valid operating system has been installed. If your PXE NIC is after the hard drive in the boot order, the hard drive will try to boot before PXE and boot to Windows, or cause an Invalid System Partition error if Windows is not installed. To resolve this issue, be sure that PXE is placed before the hard drive in the boot order.

 

Regards,

 

Sabrina

June 7th, 2011 7:03am

The issue that I am having is not booting in to OSD or Windows.  The problem is when OSD is running and it reaches the portion where it is supposed to partition and format the hard drive to reimage a PC I am getting the error message above.
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June 7th, 2011 1:13pm

Well, let me oddities continue.  Believe it or not my isssue was cased because I was proactive and loaded the SATA controller drivers from Intel.  On a whim, I went back and removed the drivers and tried it again, and sure enough, now my image goes through without and issue.

 

Thanks for the suggestions all.

June 13th, 2011 4:09pm

Please, let me know. Where have you loaded the Intel Drive? In the WIM image or in the Task Sequence ?
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June 13th, 2011 9:49pm

False alarm on the all solved.  Unfortunatly I got it to work 1 time, but cannot get it to happen again.

 

I have the Intel drivers loaded in the Boot Image

June 13th, 2011 9:58pm

So, I finally found a solution to this.  I had to change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the network before the hard drive and let the PC do the PXE boot itself, if I hit F12 to manually PXE boot it does not work.
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July 5th, 2011 2:59pm

So, I finally found a solution to this.  I had to change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the network before the hard drive and let the PC do the PXE boot itself, if I hit F12 to manually PXE boot it does not work.
  • Marked as answer by Imperial07 Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:59 PM
July 5th, 2011 2:59pm

So, I finally found a solution to this.  I had to change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the network before the hard drive and let the PC do the PXE boot itself, if I hit F12 to manually PXE boot it does not work.
  • Marked as answer by Imperial07 Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:59 PM
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July 5th, 2011 2:59pm

You plug as usual your external hard drive to your computer to retrieve its contents or to add files when Windows offers to format it.Your hard drive has serious problems you'll have to try to solve in order to,most importantly,recover your files,and repair your hard drive to it again as usual.

     Immediately click the Cancel button. 

     1.Right-click the Computer icon on the Start menu or desktop and click Manage.

     2.In the Window of Computer Management,scroll down to Storage and click Disk Management.

     3.The list of drives connected to your computer appears.Among them,your hard disk is now reluctant.This means that it works and is recognized by the system.

     4.However,its file system is shown as RAW,is to say raw data unreadable by Windows.

But here i'd like to recommend u a software named Partition Assistant developed by AOMEI Tech,i believe it would be a great help to U!

August 21st, 2013 7:44am

This doesn't seem to make sense, but it ended up being the solution for my issue as well, which was displaying similar symptoms to what you reported:

System partition not set
Unable to locate a bootable volume. Attempting to make C:\ bootable.
Unable to find the system disk
Failed to make volume C:\ bootable. Please ensure that you have set an active partition on the boot disk before installing the operating system.

Thanks for posting!


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