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Thanks for the reply! I *believe* I'm failing at step 3. However, the dd command I'm running definitely works - I've confirmed as much by running it manually while live-booted into WinPE and the installation works. Based on the logs near the end, it would appear that there is something else causing step 3 to fail - I think it is that none of my files are present somehow. If you look at the log-section below, you can see that after disk cleanup finished successfully there is another error (perhaps more telling) : "nPos != String::npos, HRESULT=800700a1" The process around "User did not specify a local data drive" also diverges from the logs in the beginning. It first checks is drive X:\ is right, passes over it, and then fails (early in the logs it does this process, but proceeds to locate drive D:\ and use that. SO I am suspicious that perhaps my disk-clean operation is destroying the dd.exe file and image that I downloaded to use in this imaging process? I'm pretty new at using this tool, so any insight at all is helpful!

Just a quick follow up: If you look in the logs for mentions of "D:\" you will notice what I have - D:\ (which is where my actionable imaging items like dd.exe and my .bin file are being stored) seems to dissappear by the time the imaging actions pops up. Any advice, in light of that?

Hi All, I'm using the following group of products: Windows 2012 (not R2) SCCM 2012 R2 Win PE 4.0 My goal is to deploy a Linux distribution by created an OSD task sequence, following these model: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2014/01/02/osd-for-linux-imaging-yes-really.aspx http://systemcenter.no/?p=509 I recognize that this is not supported by design, but dd is a simple enough tool that I am hoping I can make this work easily. So the Order of operations is: 1) Attach to remote location with dd executable and image we're trying to deploy 2) Clean disk on client 3) run command : "dd if=image.bin of=\\?\harddisk0\partition0 bs=4M --progress" However I'm running into the error 80070057, among others you'll see in the logs. Some details: for reasons outside the scope of this task, I am aiming to deploy to the entire disk. Reserving a partition will, I think, break the update system on my linux distro. Willing to try anything - would love to get some help! Here's the log (also attached): https://gist.github.com/smithforrestr/a83d6b154bc459eea62e#file-smsts-log smsts.txt