Soldato
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Right, got a problem with a WDS server I have set up. I do not think this is a WDS issue, but more or likely a Sysprep issue.
I have sysprep.exe'd a Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 machine using WINPE3.0 and WINPE4.0 respectively and getting the same error when booting from the network using PXEBOOT.
SYSPREP COMMAND:
cd sysprep
sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown
Before I boot, I capture the image using:
imagex /capture d: f:\images\windows\*******.wim "Windows ******" /compress maxiumum /verify
f:\ = pen drive or another drive on the system to save the wim file too.
* = whatever I called it
This works fine, I can then bang the image on the management server where the WDS services are located, import it, boot up a new machine (completely blank and/or a rebuild) boot into PXE and boot using WDS and it will install quickly and normally as would expected.
Then as soon as Windows attempts to boot for the first time, I get the following message:
"Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows on this computer, restart the installation"
The only way I can get around this is to boot into safe mode, let it fail again then once again reboot and it installs fine.
Its just very ******* annoying when I spend 6 hours developing a reference image to deploy to a certain type of computer i.e. have all the software, updates installed etc so it saves me time building several computers at once and installing over the network ready to be used the next morning without myself or anyone else having to set everything up from scratch.
Any help on this issue would be appreciated.
I have sysprep.exe'd a Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 machine using WINPE3.0 and WINPE4.0 respectively and getting the same error when booting from the network using PXEBOOT.
SYSPREP COMMAND:
cd sysprep
sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown
Before I boot, I capture the image using:
imagex /capture d: f:\images\windows\*******.wim "Windows ******" /compress maxiumum /verify
f:\ = pen drive or another drive on the system to save the wim file too.
* = whatever I called it
This works fine, I can then bang the image on the management server where the WDS services are located, import it, boot up a new machine (completely blank and/or a rebuild) boot into PXE and boot using WDS and it will install quickly and normally as would expected.
Then as soon as Windows attempts to boot for the first time, I get the following message:
"Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows on this computer, restart the installation"
The only way I can get around this is to boot into safe mode, let it fail again then once again reboot and it installs fine.
Its just very ******* annoying when I spend 6 hours developing a reference image to deploy to a certain type of computer i.e. have all the software, updates installed etc so it saves me time building several computers at once and installing over the network ready to be used the next morning without myself or anyone else having to set everything up from scratch.
Any help on this issue would be appreciated.