MDT Config UEFI Specific disk and partition?

Installing Win8.1 with MDT2013 on UEFI enabled machines everything seems to be ok.. Until... Injecting drivers. The deployment cannot proceed because of destination disk. Sounds obvious because Uefi makes multiple partitions unlike non-uefi that can be installed
on the first partition.
I've created an extra step to the "Format and partition disk" and named it "Format and Partition Disk - UEFI". In this step I've set an option "Task sequence variable IsUEFI equals True". So when it is "True" the step
will format the drive in GPT (as is required for UEFI boot). This seems to work good. I see in the installation the step "Format and Partition Disk - UEFI" when it's a uefi machine, and the original step if it is a non uefi machine. Obviously the
original step will have also an option "Task sequence variable IsUEFI equals False".
The problem comes when we get to the step "Install Operating System". Here I made the same change like I did above. (added extra step with extra option:
The original step "Install Operating System" will have install location: "Specific disk and partition"
Disk 0 Partition 1.
The added step will have install location "Specific disk and partition"
Disk 0 Partition 3. (Because UEFI has multiple partitions)
For some reason the deployment will accept the step "Format and Partition Disk - UEFI" but in the install step it will take the "Install Operating System - Legacy" (so it will try to install to disk 0 partition 1 as I see in BCD log).
Is there any reason that the same condition works at the format step and not at the install step?
We choose the option install to "Specific disk and partition" because of problem when have the location set at "logical drive letter stored in a variable" (problem described:
link)

Solution in my case was going for the "logical drive letter stored in a variable" instead of "Specific disk and partition".
Note when applying this: must keep using "OSDisk" variable or it will throw errors (problem described in
this link)
So I deleted the "UEFI" steps, and renamed the "Install Operating System - Legacy" to before. Removed the query for the IsUEFI variable. MDT will automatic install to MBR or GPT based on device.

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I recently update for xp to Win7 use MDT 2012 Update 1. Everything looks can be, but except for some individual strange question.
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Last edited by skodabenz (2011-01-30 19:32:48)

Welcome to arch, skodabenz! Offering documentation on third post - all thumbs up
You could start the wiki page in your user-space with what you have, and then invite others to join working on it. Just register a wiki account, navigate to the page you want to start, for example:
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As noted in the other thread, arch's legacy grub is patched for gpt support. I don't know about UEFI, but you can always open a bug report asking for the patches from fedora to be included.
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Thanks for the help in advance.
I'm a novice and need help finding a solution to a new PC Build. (Windows 7 Pro 64bit with Photoshop CS6)
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Just to clarify, if/when I get one 256gb SSD for my main C: drive, I can load the OS/Apps and store some data for the time being (until I get another SSD) and use the 2TB HDD for scratch disk only?
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