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Boot to Production Fails following Image Deploy; error: "Windows could not complete the installation"

  • 1.  Boot to Production Fails following Image Deploy; error: "Windows could not complete the installation"

    Posted Mar 04, 2015 10:43 AM

    After capturing an image (Windows 7 SP 1 x64) that uses the "Current Key" option for the Product ID, I am deploying the image using the same "Current Key" option.   When the image is deploying and it begins to boot to Windows during "Setup is preparing your computer for first use" is occuring I get an error stating: "Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation"

     

    I don't know if this is a problem with my image capture process, image deploy process or if Windows is attempting to register the product key and it is getting blocked by the firewall.

     

    Anybody else see this issue before and how did you resolve it?

     

     



  • 2.  RE: Boot to Production Fails following Image Deploy; error: "Windows could not complete the installation"

    Trusted Advisor
    Posted Mar 04, 2015 01:07 PM

    Are you using a custom sysprep file?



  • 3.  RE: Boot to Production Fails following Image Deploy; error: "Windows could not complete the installation"

    Posted Mar 04, 2015 01:13 PM

    No.

    I am using the one located here: .\NSCap\bin\Win32\X86\Deployment\sysprep.inf

    <file contents>

    [Unattended]
     OemSkipEula=Yes
     InstallFilesPath=@WinActiveDrive\Sysprep
     UnattendMode=FullUnattended
     DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
            OemPnPDriversPath=drivers
            UpdateInstalledDrivers=Yes
            EMSSkipUnattendProcessing=Yes

    [GuiUnattended]
     AdminPassword=*
     EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
     OEMSkipRegional=1
     TimeZone=@timezone
     OemSkipWelcome=1

    [UserData]
     FullName=User Name
     OrgName=
     ComputerName=@compName
     ProductKey=@license

    [SetupMgr]
     DistFolder=c:\Sysprep
     DistShare=windist

    [Networking]
     InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

    [NetAdapters]
     Adapter1=params.Adapter1

    [NetClients]
     MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

    [NetServices]
     MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

    [NetProtocols]
     MS_TCPIP=params.TCPIP

    [params.TCPIP]
     @tcpIP

    [params.TCPIP.Adapter1]
     @adapter

    [Identification]
     @identification

    [params.Adapter1]
            @NetCardAddress

    [LicenseFilePrintData]
     @AutoMode
     @AutoUsers