Hello,

I'm currently using a Windows 2008R2 WDS server and trying to deploy Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit to a Surface Pro 2. I have downloaded the driver pack and injected them into my deployment share. I'm able to pxe boot and choose the Operating system that I want to deploy. After choosing the operating system, it says "Loading Files... IP xxx.xx.xx.xxx, File: \Boot\x64\Images\LiteTouchePE_x64-(5).wim. The progress bar loads completely, then I just get a black screen. No errors, just a black screen. Any advise?

Hi,

Firstly, please check the deployment log to check if it identify this problem:

Before the Image is applied to the machine:

X:\MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS

After the system drive has been formatted:

C:\MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS

After Deployment:

%WINDIR%\TEMP\DeploymentLogs

After that, if no reason was found, please try to remove the harware driver you injected for test.

Where would I go to find these logs? The machine I'm deploying to never gets Windows installed on it.

For your situation, I think the location X:\MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS shoule be useful.

Have you tried remove driver to install Windows for test? If problem persists, I doubt this problem could be cuased by Surface itself limit. Then, it would be better to provide your problem at Surface Forum to verify main suspect.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface

I've found several log files including "BDD.log" "LiteTouch.log" "Wizard.log" and "ZTIGather.log". Which would be most helpful?