Hello Tyler, Problem solved, everything runs like a charm... Thx for your help... Got the wrong information from german support. I tried some things over the weekend, and now it works. regards...
Hello guys, first i have to admit, that i face ImageAssist the very first time, so maybe i´m asking a dumb or boring question. i tried the Search inside this Forum but didn´t get any results.. Ok, so here´s what i wanna do... our new Hardware Generation (E5570, E7270, Precision 7710, OptiPlex7040 so far) has to be distributed to our subsidiaries all over the world. Sometime they have to set up a client, so i want to create a BASE+APPS Sysprep Image, which i can send to those guys. So here´s what i did (Problem follows when restoring my Image) e.g. lets take the E5570, 8GB RAM, 256 SED m.2SSD. I installed Win7x64 Enterprise with an ISO from Microsoft inside a VM using VMWare Workstation 11. Config of my VM: 4GB RAM, 60 GB HD, Network in Bridged Mode, switched off Sound and VM Printer and here comes my first question: Inside VM:BIOS or EFI- Mode and Harddisk ACHI or Raid in SATA or SCSI Mode ?? OK, i´m prepared and tried all of them... so after installing win7 and .net 4.5.2 (VMWare Tools too, for using Drag&Drop) and 2 Reg Settings regarding our Environment (MaxTokenSize=65535 and EnableLUA=0) i created my BASE Image/Snapshot.  after adding some Software Packages i created my BASE+APPS (Still with VMWare Tools). Next step, uninstallation of VMWare Tools...  reboot, after this shutdown. now booting into DELL PE and i created our MaintenanceImage to a Network Drive. So far everything works fine, so i used the unattend-creator tool and set our values (Name&Company, Language selectable, workgroup, Computername must be filled by the regional IT guys, and i checked to copy the profile to Default User Profile... that´s it Validation Tool went through without moaning, Capturing also... i splitted the Image (about 10GB) to some 2GB Slices and copied them back onto our USB-Stick for testing purposes... Stick plugged into E5570 USBPort, restored, added Drivers from DELL CAB Files, and after finishing restore, the E5570 booted Win7x64 for the first time...  everything worked fine, Installing of devices etcpp... reaching about 90% of first boot i got the message: "Windows could not configure one or more system components. Ti install Windows, reboot and re-install Windows. Hope someone could slam that hint to my face :D  i also tried a BIOS/MBR Installation with the Precision 7710 using a STandard 2,5" SSD... i didn´t get any error or problem with that one... restroing & syspreping went fine Awaiting a lot of useful hints to solve this Problem :)))) Best regards & greetings from Germany CHRIS
Problems with ImageAssist on machines using m.2 SSD drives (NOT NVMe)