Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Task Sequence failed with error code 0x8000FFFF

I have a task sequence deploy Server OS to a 60GB HDD VM with 3 partitions. Partition 1 with 40GB 2nd  partition with 10GB fixed and 3rd partition with 10Gb fixed.

The task sequence failed at partitioning disk step with error 0x8000FFFF.

Reviewed SMSts.log found few following errors;
Partition 2 larger than remaining disk space. Requested partition size: 10737418240, remaining size: 10733301760.

Invalid configuration specified.  Please ensure that the task sequence is properly configured.
OSDDiskPart.exe failed: 0x8000ffff

Failed to run the action: Partition Disk 0.
Catastrophic failure (Error: 8000FFFF; Source: Windows)

The execution of the group (Install Operating System) has failed and the execution has been aborted. An action failed.

Operation aborted (Error: 80004004; Source: Windows)
Failed to run the last action: Partition Disk 0. Execution of task sequence failed.
Catastrophic failure (Error: 8000FFFF; Source: Windows)

Task Sequence Engine failed! Code: enExecutionFail

Task sequence execution failed with error code 80004005

Reason:
The error clearly says partition 2 larger than remaining disk space. It is a invalid configuration that is why it failed

Solution:
I have changed the 2nd partition size from fixed 10GB to 100% Remaining space on disk.
This resolve the error 0x8000FFFF.

7 comments:

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  2. Thanks easy fix :)

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