Format USB disk error with create stand alone media
To support remote computers we would like to use USB keys to distribute the task sequence. When I run through the create stand alone media wizard for USB it gets to the point where it will format and fails. The error in the CreateTSMedia.log is: Format failed (0x8004242D) CreateTsMedia 12/9/2010 5:33:39 PM 1528 (0x05F8) Error formatting volume K:\ (0x8004242d) CreateTsMedia 12/9/2010 5:33:39 PM 1528 (0x05F8) Failed to create media (0x8004242d) CreateTsMedia 12/9/2010 5:33:39 PM 1528 (0x05F8) I am running Windows 7 x64 with SCCM 2007 R2 SP2. The USB device is 64 GB in size, I've tried formatting it as NTFS and exFAT with the same results. The help file indicates with Vista that the disk must be formatted prior to use, but does not indicate how it should be formatted, I assume the same is true for Windows 7. Any thoughts?Bob
December 10th, 2010 8:33am

Assuming the key is DISK 1 run the following commands in diskpart from win 7 sel dis 1 clean cre par pri sel par 1 active format fs=fat32 exit Michael http://kongkuba1.spaces.live.com
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December 10th, 2010 9:02am

i've only been able to get those 64gb keys to work with a configmgr admin console running on XP, when trying it on windows 7 it always failed, can you try running it from a winxp console ? My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady
December 10th, 2010 9:02am

The diskpart command won't do the format, the error is disk is too big. I'll try and see if I can find an XP box. Sure would be nice if they would have used NTFS. I understand FAT32 for the CD/DVD, but it's a pain for USB keys.Bob
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December 10th, 2010 10:18am

I use USB keys 32 GB here's what I do: On a Win7 box do the following in cmd with diskpart up * sel dis 1 * clean * cre par pri * sel par 1 * active * format fs=ntfs quick * exit Then on a XP machine with the SCCM console I create the USB. One other tip I found online. The USB will ask for user input at the begining to get around this go to: USB drive:\SMS\data\TsmBootstrap.ini replace Unattended=false with Unattended=true
December 29th, 2010 11:52am

I have a question. How can I get the SCCM task sequence media wizard not to use fat 32 formating by defualt on a SCCM console that sits on a 2008 server? I have a package that is over 4gb and I believe that is too big for the fat filesystem.
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December 29th, 2010 11:58am

I was able to workaround this issue when running a Remote Console from a Windows Server 2008 R2 system. I created an NTFS 32 GB parition (the 120 GB flash drive would fail with the same error). # = disk number of your USB Flash drive (use lis dis to get list) * sel dis # * clean * cre par pri * sel par 1 * active * format fs=ntfs quick size=32768 * exit Reran the TS Wizard to create Standalone Media and it got past this error.Levi Stevens Technical Consultant - End User Computing - West Region Dell | Services
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