Weird Sysprep issue,urgent help.

[clivebuckwheat]

I built it straight from the iso mount so burn speed is not the issue.

The logs I zip are from

C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\Panther

I will check C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC next time it occurs.

Edited September 8, 2011 by clivebuckwheat

[clivebuckwheat]

The Sysprep crashed happened again.

This time I will upload the logs from C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC thanks for the tip. It seems that sysprep is crashing on the copy profile.

I have looked for any extra profiles in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\ProfileList there are none

also no extra users in computer management-->Local Users and Groups

There is only Administrator and Guest.

[windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line
2011-09-09 21:14:05, Info                         [windeploy.exe] Setup has not completed, adding pending reboot.
2011-09-09 21:14:05, Info                         [windeploy.exe] Found generalization state [0x4], setup.exe completion flag [False] --> launching setup.exe.
2011-09-09 21:14:05, Info                         [windeploy.exe] Launching [C:\Windows\system32\oobe\setup.exe]...
2011-09-09 21:30:25, Info                         [Shell Unattend] Running 'specialize' pass
2011-09-09 21:30:25, Info                         [Shell Unattend] ComputerName: generating computer name from user name
2011-09-09 21:30:25, Info                         [Shell Unattend] ComputerName: generated name 'DCDC-G5GMRBVM30'
2011-09-09 21:30:26, Info                         [Shell Unattend] ComputerName set to DCDC-G5GMRBVM30 
2011-09-09 21:32:21, Error                        [Shell Unattend] CopyProfileDirectory from C:\Users\Administrator failed (0x8007012b) [gle=0x0000012b]
2011-09-09 21:32:21, Error                        [Shell Unattend] _CopyToDefaultProfile failed (0x8007012b) [gle=0x0000012b]
2011-09-09 21:32:21, Error                        [Shell Unattend] CopyProfile failed (0x8007012b) [gle=0x0000012b]
2011-09-09 21:32:21, Info                         [Shell Unattend] Exiting 'specialize' pass with status 0x8007012b
2011-09-09 21:42:00, Info                         [windeploy.exe] Process exited with exit code [0x1f]
2011-09-09 21:42:00, Error                        [windeploy.exe] Setup.exe failed, returning exit code [0x1f]
2011-09-09 21:42:00, Error                        [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation.  Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x80004005
2011-09-09 21:42:00, Info                         [windeploy.exe] Flushing registry to disk...
2011-09-09 21:42:00, Info                         [windeploy.exe] Flush took 265 ms.
2011-09-09 21:42:00, Info                         [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe exiting with code [0x80004005]

Panther.zip

Edited September 10, 2011 by clivebuckwheat

[maxXPsoft]

Some things that bother me but I don't know why you say it work on 30 of 40

It seem that you should have used CopyProfile on original image.

To copy the Administrator profile I think you need to AutoLogon with Admin or his profile folder don't exist.

Edited September 10, 2011 by maxXPsoft

[cluberti]

CopyProfile needs to be done in the sysprep that is laying the image down onto new hardware. You can't, and shouldn't, try to do it during capture - only deploy. Also, you do not need to autologon, because the profile will exist if you logged on as admin in the original image and made the requisite modifications to have required CopyProfile in the first place.

As to the error, it at least tells us something - that error code means "ERROR_PARTIAL_COPY", which is stating that it is having an issue either reading or writing some of what it is attempting to write from memory to disk. I don't know why, but either there's an issue with the profile in the captured image (not totally impossible), or there could be hardware issues with the destination machines.

[clivebuckwheat]

CopyProfile needs to be done in the sysprep that is laying the image down onto new hardware. You can't, and shouldn't, try to do it during capture - only deploy. Also, you do not need to autologon, because the profile will exist if you logged on as admin in the original image and made the requisite modifications to have required CopyProfile in the first place.

As to the error, it at least tells us something - that error code means "ERROR_PARTIAL_COPY", which is stating that it is having an issue either reading or writing some of what it is attempting to write from memory to disk. I don't know why, but either there's an issue with the profile in the captured image (not totally impossible), or there could be hardware issues with the destination machines.

Thanks Cluberti,

It works on 98% of the hardware I have thrown the image at. It seems to dislike the Dell Optiplex 755, 760, and 780 Models. On a lab of 40 pc's I get maybe 5 with the sysprep crash. All machines have been brought up to the latest BIOS. Hopefully I'll figure it out.

[cluberti]

If you do, let us know. Not all Dell machines, even those of the same model run, are necessarily equal. You may need to engage Dell, ultimately, to figure out what's different with the machines that aren't working compared to the ones that do.

[clivebuckwheat]

If you do, let us know. Not all Dell machines, even those of the same model run, are necessarily equal. You may need to engage Dell, ultimately, to figure out what's different with the machines that aren't working compared to the ones that do.

As always I thank everyone on the board and this site for all your help. You have helped me learn the stuff I needed to quickly and made me realize when I was going off course. I made a donation a few weeks ago as thanks for all you've done for me.

[joeli26]

Hi all, just to rule out hardware error, I've syspreped a machine after I snapshot the it reboot and I got that same error message. So for my case I can ruled out hardware difference.