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Oct 30, 2008 10:22 AM

Dell Notebook Latitude E5400 and PXE Boot

I'm getting ready to deploy a new notebook model, the Dell Latitude E5400. When I first booted one up and loaded the PXE image, I got the following warning: The disk you specified is not valid. There is no disk selected. "There is not an available hard drive or the hard disk driver is not loaded. Please inject the proper driver. The steps to inject drivers into the WinPE image can be found at http://kb.landesk.com in the kb article 3469."

 

Well after talking with Dell tech support to find the correct driver for this computer, I followed the steps and injected the driver. I then redeployed the PXE Representative and tried the PXE boot once again. The computer again gives me the warning shown above.

 

The LANDesk server is at  version 8.8 SP2.

 

Does anyone have the proper driver? Thanks in advance.

 

Steve Bibler

Tags: winpe_error, pxe_boot, deployment
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1. Oct 31, 2008 5:14 AM in response to: Stephen Bibler
Re: Dell Notebook Latitude E5400 and PXE Boot

Hello Steve,

 

take a look at this interesting thread: http://community.landesk.com/support/message/14232#14232

 

E5400 is not so much different to E6400, my drivers work for both, but I install fully unattended, no imaging... :-)

 

Regards

Axel

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2. Oct 31, 2008 6:47 AM in response to: Stephen Bibler
Re: Dell Notebook Latitude E5400 and PXE Boot

One thing you may check:

 

If diskpart is not able to see your drive in the device, it may be because thedrive access type is set to somethinglike AHCI mode in the BIOS. If that is the case, you can try to set the drive access to 'compatabile' mode and diskpart should be able to perform the required disk operations.

 

I have re-built my LANDesk PXE boot environment using WinPE 2.0 (WinPE Vista); this newer platform supports all teh newer drive acceess types so we don't have to go into the bios to adjust the access type.

 

Hope you get it!

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3. Oct 31, 2008 1:34 PM in response to: Stephen Bibler
Re: Dell Notebook Latitude E5400 and PXE Boot

I got the Dell Latitude E5400 to PXE boot finally by using the procedures for injecting drivers into the PXE image. The hard part was discovering the proper drivers. Thanks for the suggestions.

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