Task Sequence failing for laptops after upgrading to MECM 2207

Question

Hi all,

One week ago we upgraded to 2207, after this all our laptop builds fail (Lenovo laptops), and desktops build without issue. After studying the smsts.logs we got the following error;

I quickly found that running the following commands before running the TS, it fixed the issue;

Diskpart
Select disk 0
Clean
Convert gpt
Create partition efi size=300
Format quick fs=FAT32
Create partition msr size=128
Create partition primary
Assign letter=c
Format quick fs=NTFS
Exit

We have a workaround, but why has this happened all of a sudden and how can I fix the TS so we do not need to type the commands on laptops? We use a MDT TS with all the default disk partitions etc. The onsite team disables BitLocker before kicking off a reimage. I did not update the Windows ADK.

Answer 1

Hi, @Kevin Hawkins

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

No idea why this happened all of a sudden.
The issue could be related to BIOS setting issue, try to change the BIOS setting:
Under BOOT CONFIGURATION, Disable Secure Boot
Under STORAGE, change SATA/NVME Operation from RAID to AHCI/NVMe.
Under PRE-BOOT BEAHAVIOR, Fastboot should be set to Auto.

See this article for more details:
https://www.anoopcnair.com/sccm-task-sequence-unable-to-find-a-volume-error-code-0x80070490/
(Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, just for your reference.)

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