Windows 10 wont image: Please reinstall windows error

Scott Boucher · Oct 29, 2018, 3:22 PM

I need some help with troubleshooting why my image will not deploy after I sys-prep. So I created a clean install of windows 10 education. Pc is in legacy mode and the win 10 installer is created with a mbr. Once I have windows installed accepting defaults and reboot I enter Audit mode and setup windows and update it and get it exactly how I want it. Basically following this guide to exact. https://www.theitcave.com/post/561

So before I sysprepped wanted to be sure I had a image of everything I just did, so from fog I did a capture of the win 10 machine in the current state in audit mode with sysprep up and enter system audit mode and reboot options. This way if something goes wrong I dont need to rebuild everything over.

So all this is working, I can send this image down to the pc and it works and will load win 10 in audit mode with sysprep up just like I left it.

When I sysprep it with sysprep /generalize /shutdown /unattend:C:\Windows\Customize\customize.xml and then capture another image, it captures correctly but when I push it back down to the or another machine I get a error windows could not start please reinstall to continue. After reading many, many post and possible fixes I still cant figure out what is going on. I have tried disabling the fog service and I still get the error. Then, I thought it was because my unattend file did not have a user being created so I put a user in my unattend file and I still get the same results. I think it has something to do with my unattend file but I just can’t figure out what is happening. Thanks for the Help. here is my unattend file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" 

processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" 

versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SetupUILanguage>
                <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            </SetupUILanguage>
            <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" 

processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" 

versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SetupUILanguage>
                <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            </SetupUILanguage>
            <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DiskConfiguration>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <CreatePartitions>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                            <Size>100</Size>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Extend>true</Extend>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                    </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>System Reserved</Label>
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                            <TypeID>0x27</TypeID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>OS</Label>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                </Disk>
            </DiskConfiguration>
            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>
            <UserData>
                <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
                <FullName>Tech</FullName>
                <Organization>TEST</Organization>
                <ProductKey>
                    <Key>GC73X-3TWCJ-PJK48-xxxxx-xxxxx</Key>
                </ProductKey>
            </UserData>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DiskConfiguration>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <CreatePartitions>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                            <Size>100</Size>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Extend>true</Extend>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                    </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>System Reserved</Label>
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                            <TypeID>0x27</TypeID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>OS</Label>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                </Disk>
            </DiskConfiguration>
            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>
            <UserData>
                <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
                <FullName>Tech</FullName>
                <Organization>TEST</Organization>
                <ProductKey>
                    <Key>GC73X-3TWCJ-PJK48-xxxxx-xxxxx</Key>
                </ProductKey>
            </UserData>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="offlineServicing">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-LUA-Settings" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <EnableLUA>false</EnableLUA>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="offlineServicing">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-LUA-Settings" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <EnableLUA>false</EnableLUA>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="generalize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="generalize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="specialize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-SQMApi" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <CEIPEnabled>0</CEIPEnabled>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-SQMApi" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <CEIPEnabled>0</CEIPEnabled>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <ComputerName>TEST-PC</ComputerName>
            <ProductKey>GC73X-3TWCJ-PJK48-xxxxx-xxxxx</ProductKey>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <ComputerName>TEST-PC</ComputerName>
            <ProductKey>GC73X-3TWCJ-PJK48-xxxxx-xxxxx</ProductKey>
            <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="oobeSystem">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <AutoLogon>
                <Password>
                    <Value>xxxxxxxx</Value>
                    <PlainText>true</PlainText>
                </Password>
                <Enabled>false</Enabled>
                <Username>Tech</Username>
            </AutoLogon>
            <OOBE>
                <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
                <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
                <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
                <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
                <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
                <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
                <ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC>
            </OOBE>
            <UserAccounts>
                <LocalAccounts>
                    <LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
                        <Password>
                            <Value>xxxxxx</Value>
                            <PlainText>true</PlainText>
                        </Password>
                        <Description></Description>
                        <DisplayName>Tech</DisplayName>
                        <Group>Administrators</Group>
                        <Name>Tech</Name>
                    </LocalAccount>
                </LocalAccounts>
            </UserAccounts>
            <RegisteredOrganization>TEST</RegisteredOrganization>
            <RegisteredOwner>Tech</RegisteredOwner>
            <DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>false</DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>
            <FirstLogonCommands>
                <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Description>Control Panel View</Description>
                    <Order>1</Order>
                    <CommandLine>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows

\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel" /v StartupPage /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f</CommandLine>
                    <RequiresUserInput>true</RequiresUserInput>
                </SynchronousCommand>
                <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Order>2</Order>
                    <Description>Control Panel Icon Size</Description>
                    <RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
                    <CommandLine>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows

\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel" /v AllItemsIconView /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f</CommandLine>
                </SynchronousCommand>
                <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Order>3</Order>
                    <RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
                    <CommandLine>cmd /C wmic useraccount where name="Tech" set 

PasswordExpires=false</CommandLine>
                    <Description>Password Never Expires</Description>
                </SynchronousCommand>
            </FirstLogonCommands>
            <TimeZone>Central Standard Time</TimeZone>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" 

publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <AutoLogon>
                <Password>
                    <Value>xxxPasswordHash</Value>
                    <PlainText>false</PlainText>
                </Password>
                <Enabled>false</Enabled>
                <Username>Tech</Username>
            </AutoLogon>
            <OOBE>
                <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
                <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
                <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
                <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
                <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
                <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
                <ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC>
            </OOBE>
            <UserAccounts>
                <LocalAccounts>
                    <LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
                        <Password>
                            <Value>xxxPasswordHash</Value>
                            <PlainText>false</PlainText>
                        </Password>
                        <Description></Description>
                        <DisplayName>Tech</DisplayName>
                        <Group>Administrators</Group>
                        <Name>Tech</Name>
                    </LocalAccount>
                </LocalAccounts>
            </UserAccounts>
            <RegisteredOrganization>TEST</RegisteredOrganization>
            <RegisteredOwner>Tech</RegisteredOwner>
            <DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>false</DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>
            <FirstLogonCommands>
                <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Description>Control Panel View</Description>
                    <Order>1</Order>
                    <CommandLine>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows

\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel" /v StartupPage /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f</CommandLine>
                    <RequiresUserInput>true</RequiresUserInput>
                </SynchronousCommand>
                <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Order>2</Order>
                    <Description>Control Panel Icon Size</Description>
                    <RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
                    <CommandLine>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows

\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel" /v AllItemsIconView /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f</CommandLine>
                </SynchronousCommand>
                <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Order>3</Order>
                    <RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
                    <CommandLine>cmd /C wmic useraccount where name="Tech" set 

PasswordExpires=false</CommandLine>
                    <Description>Password Never Expires</Description>
                </SynchronousCommand>
            </FirstLogonCommands>
            <TimeZone>Central Standard Time</TimeZone>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:e:/sources/install.wim#Windows 10 Education" 

xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

Scott Adams · Oct 30, 2018, 2:15 PM

I’m in agreement with you that this must be a sysprep issue. This is a very detailed sysprep file. It appears to be doing a lot of different things.

Tell me, what all are you trying to do with the sysprep file? Mine is pretty simple and we image without an issue.

Scott Adams · Oct 30, 2018, 2:17 PM

Do you have a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit machines? I’m seeing both references all throughout your unattend file.

Scott Boucher · Oct 30, 2018, 2:35 PM

@Scott-Adams All I am really trying to do is to make a Win 10 image that can be sent to multiple different models of pc’s using legacy bios and MBR, I was going to have fog add to domain and rename the pc.

Scott Boucher · Oct 30, 2018, 2:39 PM

@Scott-Adams I dont I used this site to build the unattend. http://www.windowsafg.com/win10x86_x64.html

Scott Boucher · Oct 30, 2018, 3:01 PM

@Scott-Adams do you think I can have a copy of your unattend.

Scott Adams · Oct 30, 2018, 3:48 PM

0_1540914509994_unattend.txt

Scott Boucher · Nov 1, 2018, 1:53 PM

Ok, I am on the right path, Thanks for unattend file. It worked, Now I would like to change a couple things on it and I will do that one at a time and test it. First is, it current auto logs in as administrator, and it does this until after the 2nd restart. I am guessing all I need to do is to put the auto login from 2 to 0 or does this unattend need at least 1 ?

Scott Adams · Nov 1, 2018, 1:53 PM

@Scott-Boucher 2 logins is for other processes that we run. You should be able to change that number without issue.

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