You are
trying to deploy Windows 8.1 via a MDT 2013 and Task Sequence you have used on many
occasions. After you boot the from the LiteTouch deployment disk, select the
Task Sequence and click Finish, the Task Sequence immediately fails with.
Litetouch
Deployment Failed, Return Code 2147467259 0x80004005
Although
there are a number of articles on the web relating to MDT share permissions,
registry keys and multicasting (PXE boot was not being used) none of these
worked for me in this instance.
Solution
This issue
here was that MDT could not initiate the partitioning of the hard disks, an
educated guess why this happens is MDT is checking the destination disk for
space to establish the Task Sequence Cache, if there is not sufficient space it
fails? If this is incorrect and you know the exact reason please share it
below.
Click Finish
and break out of the Deployment Summary window to Command Prompt. Type diskpart at Command Prompt.
Type list disk to identify which hard disk
contains the stale instance of Windows. Disks are numbered, to select the disk
type select disk x
Now type clean and this will remove all of the
existing partitions from the hard disk.
Reboot the
machine and type running the same Task Sequence again, this sorted the issues
for me in this case.
The Task
Sequence will now continue.
