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July 6th, 2011 10:00

MDT 2010 won't capture Optiplex 990 - Missing network driver

I've been able to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 to an Optiplex 990 (wiping out all of the factory partitions first -- that's an issue for another thread) but I can't sysprep and capture the deployed OS. This happens only on the capture phase - after installing the OS and executing sysprep, the system reboots into a Windows PE RAM disk to capture the image of the installed OS. But after the reboot, there's no NIC driver (using the Intel NIC built into the motherboard), so the capture fails.

The Windows PE CD has the WinPE drivers (selection profile) and when the OS is deployed, the correct drivers are injected from the Optiplex 990 driver pack in the deployment share (using a selection profile for now), so the OS runs correctly as installed.

I suspect I need to add an Inject Drivers task step into the task sequence just before the reboot. Has anyone had this issue, and been able to solve it?

July 9th, 2011 12:00

There may have been a problem with the driver packs. Many duplicates were created when I imported them, and they all went in the same folder. After removing all out-of-box drivers, copying the C:\Drivers folder over from a new machine out of the factory, importing those drivers, then re-creating the selection profile, it was possible to sysprep and capture 990s.

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July 14th, 2011 14:00

Thanks for the followup and the solution to your issue!
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