Cannot Boot from USB Device on Elitepad 900 (D4T17AA) :: Windows 8

[JamesTierney1]

Hey Taurus,

I tried to follow the ftp link but it looks for a username and password... any ideas on what to enter here?
Thanks in advance,

James

[phi482]

My current experience is an all or nothing situation.  We received 6 of these devices and 4 of the 6 I have been able to successfully build from start to finish with a custon Win8 image with MDT.  The other 2 I cannot get past the HP logo when booting from USB.  Same dock, same USB stick that successfully booted the others.  On the 2 that won't boot to USB, I can boot to the factory image and all if fine and well.  Any ideas here would be much appreciated.

[soccer_dan]

Here is a document that can help manage a MDT deployment of Windows 8/x86 on the ElitePad. Hope it is useful. Please, note that the Drivers and Firmware just had a minor change and therefore a softpaq number release, now at SP62727

[EeroValanne]

Hi,

Here's the document which I found from my archives. I'm sure there has been a lot of changes.

First of all, I created my custom image manually, installing Windows 8 and some software.

Then I just sysprepped it, captured a .wim -file with imagex and added it to my Deploymentshare.

I had MDT 2012 Update 1 & ADK 8 installed but since I've updated to SCCM 2012 SP1 CU 1 & CU2, MDT2012 Update 1 and ADK 8.

If I manage to get some time before my vacation, I'll try to catch some screenshots and documentation of my MDT Task Sequence and contents of my boot media.

I don't have possibility to get a remote to my SCCM, because it's standalone server at my office.

Although, when creating boot image, it's very important to add SecureBoot cmdlets to boot media, so You don't have to worry about secureboot while boting from USB.

Although, I'll try to catch some docs and screenshots of my MDT TS.

Cheers!

[soccer_dan]

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[gmourajorge]

What exactly hp said to do about the boot that is different from usb windows installation? I need to initialize a disk Acronis, but i can't..

[soccer_dan]

Acronis must format the usb key as fat32 and use WinPE 4.0 or later to support UEFI booting

[Greknev]

Hi! As to me it will be loaded with USB and to establish Android according to the link http://www.android-x86.org/download/ or https://01.org/android-ia/downloads/ it is necessary for me the second operating system.....

[getaway]

Exactly the same; had a batch of 20 a couple of months ago all booted fine from my Win PE 4 Acronis USB stick, now have another batch of six and they all start to boot then stick at the HP logo - all updated with latest BIOS.

Flakey as f*** and I expect better from HP

p.s.

Just noticed the ones that are okay are SKU d4t15aa#abu , and the ones that aren't are  d4t15aW#abu. The ones that work had the older BIOS so I tried that also on the new batch and they are still the same.

[sc31656us]

Here is the answer...

Use the microsoft utlity to create a bootable usb drive, then once its done, copy all the files/folders from the USB drive to a folder on your desktop. then format the USB drive using fat32 (the utility that makes the USB drive bootable formats the USB drive NTFS) - then once the USB drive is formated to fat32, copy the files back onto the USB drive and it will work!!!