adimopoulos

Just to update for anyone else with this problem, the above solution is a valid workaround. But I would recommend if you have to deploy to these type of systems regularly, to use Windows PE media with ImageX instead of the SmartDeploy media, so you can target disk 1.

Unfortunately the disks are not installed in idenctical slots. The SSD is in an mSATA. I believe I've read somewhere that you can physically disconnect the drive that's recognized as disk 0, and have BIOS reassign the disk id's to the remaining drives. But I am not sure about the validity of that workaround, and was hoping to avoid this. Thanks for the quick response.

To start, I've had a very easy time building and deploying images with SmartDeploy...until I tried to deploy my images to a Dell Precision M3800 with dual hard drives.

The problem is, the SSD (where the image should be applied) is identified as Disk 1, and the SATA drive is Disk 0. I can't get this to deploy to anything other than Disk 0 however. Removing the SATA drive as workaround is not a viable solution for me. I tried offlining the disk in diskpart, and precreating a partition on the SSD and assigining volume letter C, but SmartDeploy errors out when trying to apply the image. Wipe and Load drives option does not work either. Is there not a command line\script method where I can select the physical disk to apply the image?

Any help here is appreciated!