The red screen was caused on purpose, in order for the task sequence to 
partition and format the drive properly. Otherwise the disk goes away and the 
task sequence fails. After imaging, just go back in and reset the secure boot 
keys to factory default.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Surface Pro 3 disk goes AWOL during partition job

Wow… that's an old one. Wrote about that back at MMS 2013…

http://windowsitpro.com/blog/fixing-red-screen-after-update-issue-microsoft-surface

From: Richard Poole<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎July‎ ‎28‎, ‎2015 ‎2‎:‎00‎ ‎PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

I solved the mystery, at least for those that seemed to have the issue of the 
hard drive disappearing during the partition and format job - you have to 
delete all secure boot keys in the EFI screen. Turns the boot screen a horrible 
red color, but so far every machine that had the issue before now goes through 
just fine.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Lindberg
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 5:27 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Surface Pro 3 disk goes AWOL during partition job

here is a reply I received from Microsoft...


Hey Team,



The issue is a bug that intel fixed  in the iastor driver.  This driver has a 
fix that’s been delivered in the latest drivers located here:  
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38826 but only in the 
MSI.  We will be releasing the driver to the .zip file shortly.



Until we release the driver, you can have a look at this guide - 
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/07/15/deploy-windows-to-surface-pro-3-using-microsoft-deployment-toolkit.aspx



Take the zip file on the site, and create a device specific driver pack and 
apply that in your task sequence.  This will help you to continue to deploy.  
For machines where the issue has occurred, if you boot to UEFI and don’t see 
the SSD as an option, that device will have to be exchanged.



jeff

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Richard Poole 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
The one I had needed to be sent out to a user right away so I didn’t have time 
to really beat it up, did learn the joys of creating a full restore USD thumb 
drive. I have another SurPro3 being ordered and should here shortly that is all 
mine to play with. I’ll get the info to you as soon as possible, though I’m 
hoping the first one was just a fluke.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] 
On Behalf Of keith garner
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 11:40 PM

To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Surface Pro 3 disk goes AWOL during partition job

I haven’t seen the disappearing disk 0 issue on a surface pro 3.  Note that 
this is not a MDT or SCCM issue, since winpe loses the disk, there is nothing 
to do.  My best guess is that this is a storage driver issue, a WinPE issue or 
some faulty firmware. If you see the issue again, can you grab the uEFI version 
firmware version, and the WinPE ‘revision’ number?  I can follow up internally.

Additionally, check out the surface bare metal recovery bits, they contain a 
WinPE boot wim built by surface.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Poole
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:12 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Surface Pro 3 disk goes AWOL during partition job

Mark, I have one job that creates all three partitions. Niall, I’m using SCCM. 
I’ll take a look at those videos and see if there’s anything I’m somehow 
missing. Thank you!

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niall Brady
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:04 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Surface Pro 3 disk goes AWOL during partition job

no mass storage driver is needed in your boot wim, are you deploying with mdt 
or SCCM ? have you seen these yet, they cover deploying the surface pro 3 with 
mdt and with sccm

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11685-5-video-series-on-deploying-the-microsoft-surface-pro-3-available-now/

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Kent, Mark 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Do you have three steps to create each partition.

Mark Kent (MCP)
Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer
Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] 
On Behalf Of Richard Poole
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:10 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [MDT-OSD] Surface Pro 3 disk goes AWOL during partition job

Hello everyone,
I have a task sequence that handles both BIOS and UEFI imaging over PXE, and 
was excited when even the newer Lenovo Helix machines (strictly UEFI, can’t 
switch to legacy) were able to image with no problems. Now I’m doing some 
testing with a Surface Pro 3 and am encountering a very odd issue. The job 
during the task sequence that partitions the disk into a small EFI, small MSR, 
and large GPT partition (again, works on other UEFI devices so I know the job 
works) fails every time. Going into diskpart and listing disks, none are 
listed. Going into diskpart after a reboot, but before firing the task sequence 
off, shows the disk and partitions but keeps disappearing right after the 
partitioning job error (makes sense if it can’t find the disk to partition).
Anyone else out there experiencing this or know what I can do to fix it? 
Possibly a mass storage driver I need to put into the boot image?
Thanks,
Richard Poole


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