Using FFU Imaging; after Optimize-FFU it no longer works

[AdamNYC31]

Hi,

I installed a fresh copy of Windows Home v21H1. In audit mode, I ran installed all the Windows Updates and then ran System Prep with "System Cleanup Action > Enter System Audit mode" and shutdown the system. I then booted to WinPE and was able to successfully capture an FFU image to a network share.

I was also able to successfully deploy this image to another machine with a larger SSD.

However, anything with a small drive won't work so I ran the 'Optimize-FFU' command from the Deployment and Imaging Tools command prompt on my sever which hosts the network share and that process went through successfully. My understanding is that this modifies the image so that it will work on small drive sizes.

My issue is that AFTER running this 'Optimize-FFU' the image will not deploy on ANY machines.

When I try to deploy the 'optimized' image to the same machines the original image worked or any other machine on I get an error: 0x8000ffff

ANY IDEAS?

2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   PID=1488 TID=1464 Scratch directory set to 'X:\windows\TEMP\'. - CDISMManager::put_ScratchDir
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   PID=1488 TID=1464 DismCore.dll version: 10.0.22000.1 - CDISMManager::FinalConstruct
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   Initialized Panther logging at X:\windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   PID=1488 TID=1464 Successfully loaded the ImageSession at "X:\windows\system32\Dism" - CDISMManager::LoadLocalImageSession
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   Initialized Panther logging at X:\windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM Provider Store: PID=1488 TID=1464 Found and Initialized the DISM Logger. - CDISMProviderStore::Internal_InitializeLogger
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   Initialized Panther logging at X:\windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM Manager: PID=1488 TID=1464 Successfully created the local image session and provider store. - CDISMManager::CreateLocalImageSession
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: 
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: <----- Starting Dism.exe session ----->
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: 
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: Host machine information: OS Version=10.0.22000, Running architecture=amd64, Number of processors=4
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: Dism.exe version: 10.0.22000.1
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: Executing command line: dism  /apply-ffu /ImageFile=W:\Win10-9-5-21.ffu /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDrive0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: CFfuMiscHelpersT<class CEmptyType>::GetSignerInfoFromCatalog#998 failed with 0x80091008.
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider: -------- Security Header ----------------------------------
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:                     Size = 32
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:                Signature = SignedImage 
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:            ChunkSizeInKB = 128
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:              AlgorithmId = 32780
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:              CatalogSize = 328
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:            HashTableSize = 5505024
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider: ----------- Image Header ----------------------------------
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:                     Size = 24
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:                Signature = ImageFlash  
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:           ManifestLength = 1723
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:                ChunkSize = 128
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider: ----------- Store Header ----------------------------------
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:               UpdateType = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:             MajorVersion = 1
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:             MinorVersion = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:    FullFlashMajorVersion = 3
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:    FullFlashMinorVersion = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:               PlatformId = 
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:                BlockSize = 131072
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:     WriteDescriptorCount = 172004
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:    WriteDescriptorLength = 3440080
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:  ValidateDescriptorCount = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider: ValidateDescriptorLength = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:        InitialTableIndex = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:        InitialTableCount = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:      FlashOnlyTableIndex = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:      FlashOnlyTableCount = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:          FinalTableIndex = 0
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:          FinalTableCount = 172004
2021-09-05 13:56:54, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider:     CompressionAlgorithm = 3
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Info                  DISM   DISM FFU Provider: Anti-theft feature is not supported on this machine.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: (Partition) Name is not present in manifest.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: CManifest::GetDriveLayoutInfoEx#788 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: CFfuReader::ProcessWriteDescriptors#1260 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: CFfuReader::PreApply#303 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: FfuApplyInternal#477 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: FfuApplyImage#85 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: PID=1488 TID=1464 onecore\base\ntsetup\opktools\dism\providers\ffuprovider\dll\ffumanager.cpp:515 - CFfuManager::Apply(hr:0x8000ffff)
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: PID=1488 TID=1464 Failed to apply an FFU image to '\\.\PhysicalDrive0'. - CFfuManager::InternalCmdApply(hr:0x8000ffff)
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: PID=1488 TID=1464 "Error executing command" - CFfuManager::InternalExecuteCmd(hr:0x8000ffff)
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM FFU Provider: PID=1488 TID=1464 onecore\base\ntsetup\opktools\dism\providers\ffuprovider\dll\ffumanager.cpp:224 - CFfuManager::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x8000ffff)
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Error                 DISM   DISM.EXE: FfuManager processed the command line but failed. HRESULT=8000FFFF
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: Image session has been closed. Reboot required=no.
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: 
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE: <----- Ending Dism.exe session ----->
2021-09-05 13:56:55, Info                  DISM   DISM.EXE:

[#2]

Sadness.... I found this issue on 2/7/2023 after I optimized an ffu from a Win8 device. I optimized in the event I needed to restore to a smaller (500GB SSD) vs the barely used (1TB hdd). I mounted the ffu and it failed. I navigated to the temp folder and found the temp VHD that is created. It mounted without issue but, the logs complained that it couldn't delete that VHD :(

My error was : hr:0x8000ffff

2023-02-08 12:21:15, Error DISM DISM FFU Provider: More than 1 recovery partitions found.
2023-02-08 12:21:15, Error DISM DISM FFU Provider: FfuApplyInternal#546 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2023-02-08 12:21:15, Error DISM DISM FFU Provider: FfuMountInternal#242 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2023-02-08 12:21:27, Warning DISM DISM FFU Provider: Failed to delete backing VHD/X file C:\Users\<removed>\AppData\Local\Temp\_ffumount50289394.vhd (0x80070020).
2023-02-08 12:21:27, Error DISM DISM FFU Provider: FfuMountImage#163 failed with 0x8000ffff.
2023-02-08 12:21:27, Error DISM DISM FFU Provider: PID=9932 TID=6036 onecore\base\ntsetup\opktools\dism\providers\ffuprovider\dll\ffuimageinfo.cpp:347 - CFfuImageInfo::Mount(hr:0x8000ffff)
2023-02-08 12:21:28, Error DISM DISM Imaging Provider: PID=9932 TID=6036 onecore\base\ntsetup\opktools\dism\providers\imagingprovider\dll\genericimagingmanager.cpp:832 - CGenericImagingManager::InternalOpMount(hr:0x8000ffff)
2023-02-08 12:21:28, Error DISM DISM Imaging Provider: PID=9932 TID=6036 onecore\base\ntsetup\opktools\dism\providers\imagingprovider\dll\genericimagingmanager.cpp:745 - CGenericImagingManager::InternalCmdMount(hr:0x8000ffff)
2023-02-08 12:21:28, Error DISM DISM Imaging Provider: PID=9932 TID=6036 onecore\base\ntsetup\opktools\dism\providers\imagingprovider\dll\genericimagingmanager.cpp:537 - CGenericImagingManager::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x8000ffff):(
Luckily, the original machine isn't wiped yet (attempting win10 upgrade)