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I am using Niall's TS he provides in his FrontEnd HTA ver 1.0. I have noticed that when I PXE boot the hard drive is formatted very early on in the task. However, if I run the task sequence from windows it will not format the drive and I am able to do a "Refresh" by using the TS to make a backup wim and lay down a new version of windows 7. The end result I am after is to be able to PXE boot a machine a do a refresh. I believe the formatting of the drive is being controlled by several condition statements. Is there a way to prevent the machine from formatting the drive so I can do a refresh on a PXE boot? <step type="SMS_TaskSequence_PartitionDiskAction" name="Format and Partition Disk" description="" runIn="WinPE" successCodeList="0"> <condition> <operator type="or"> <operator type="and"> <expression type="SMS_TaskSequence_VariableConditionExpression"> <variable name="Operator">equals</variable> <variable name="Value">TRUE</variable> <variable name="Variable">_SMSTSDownloadOnDemand</variable> </expression> <expression type="SMS_TaskSequence_VariableConditionExpression"> <variable name="Operator">equals</variable> <variable name="Value">TRUE</variable> <variable name="Variable">_SMSTSinWInPE</variable> </expression> </operator> <operator type="and"> <expression type="SMS_TaskSequence_VariableConditionExpression"> <variable name="Operator">equals</variable> <variable name="Value">TRUE</variable> <variable name="Variable">_SMSTSinWInPE</variable> </expression> <expression type="SMS_TaskSequence_VariableConditionExpression"> <variable name="Operator">equals</variable> <variable name="Value">FullMedia</variable> <variable name="Variable">_SMSTSMediaType</variable> </expression> </operator> </operator>

I ran into this problem some time ago and the solution ended up being to uninstall Microsoft Security update KB974571. However, now that Windows 7 SP1 is out and rolled into the machine I'm trying to run USMT against I can't seem to get around the problem. Attached is my smsts.log. I also tried renaming the sms encryption certificates as OP did. Now I'm getting the same error as OP did after changing the sms encryption certificates. smsts.log