Is the SATA virtual hard disk attached to port 0 of SATA?

Did you CLEAN the virtual hard disk of all partitions first?

SATA port 0

and clean in bootice with re-partition

 

but... the error is the same on a phisical PC a Dell vostro with UEFI and Win8.1

 

i think it's a problem with a bootice partitioning... maybe my error

Are these standard Win7/8 Install ISOs or special ones?

Do they require more than 100MB for the 1st partition?

i've just finish a regular setup with the windows7x64.iso and all went well (regular setup)

 

just now remake a setup on winpe with winntsetup... just to view if the only format of the partitions works

 

this stuff make me crazy...

Edited April 12, 201511 yr by Lordk1

If using UEFI it will make a GPT partitioned disk. Could you have mixed up the installs and not always deleted and CLEANed the disks?

no...

always clean the disk

in bootice says the disk is MBR

I thought that for UEFI you have to use GPT?

but the VM isnt UEFI...

 

well... the error come again...

i think it's related to bootsect or some other stuff.

 

i'll make other try.

 

thanks steve6375

Try DISKPART CLEAN before partitioning.

Try (just for experiment) 500MB first partition.

just now tryng with clean and 500mb....

 

same error.....

Edited April 12, 201511 yr by Lordk1

Try using DISKPART to create the partitions instead of BootIce?

 

i.e. (for example)

DISKPARTSEL DIS 0CLEANCRE PART PRI SIZE=xxxFORMAT FS=FAT32 LABEL="YYY" QUICKACTIVECRE PART PRI SEL PAR 2FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="ZZZ" QUICKASSIGN LETTER=CLIS VOLEXIT

Edited April 12, 201511 yr by steve6375

Have you looked a the setup log files inside \Windows\Panther folder?

 

There should be a setupact.log and setuperr.log.

@JFX:

Thank you for reply.
Mystery is solved. My HDD's integrity is corrupted. Solution: 

chkdsk e: /x /f

did I spend many days this? I want to cry!   

Suggestion: Can be add to WinNTsetup that CheckDisk task after BCD settings finished.

 

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Like I said, I always setup install.wim to my other hard drives. Therefore, I used to selet "mount drive installation as" and "drive letter preassigment". It's working. Thanks JFX!

 

On some modified (unattended) WIMs the Sysprep phase can't pass. Error messages:

"Windows could not complete the installation"

OR

"Windows Setup could not configure Windows on this computer's hardware"

OR

"The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered and unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed."

 

 

from the setup logs in \Panther:

[windeploy.exe] Found failed generalization state [6] --> system is in an invalid state

[windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation.  Online installation cannot complete at this 

time.; hr = 0x8030000c

 

 

 

Temporarily solution: SHIFT F10 -> \Windows\System32\oobe\msoobe.exe

 

But this time the setup cannot complete properly.

(_:\Windows\Setup\State\State.ini -> other messages expect "completed")

 

Where's the harm? Windows Update can't working. From WindowsUpdate.log:

Windows OOBE is still in progress. AU deferring detection

WARNING: BeginDetection failed, hr:0x8024a008

All AU searches complete.

# WARNING: Failed to find updates with error code 8024a008

 

 

 

JFX, why happening the issue? What is state failure to cause on sysprep phase? Obivously, the issue related any a setting in unattended WIM. I did spend many months but I can't detect why. 

 

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My request:

 

Sometime, I only want mount and preassigment feature of WinNtSetup. Unfortunately, WNS always want to extract install.wim. Simply because it's keep waiting 15-20 minutes. How am I use mount and preassigment feature without extracting? My purpose: Apply mount and preassigment feature to existed Windows on my drive. 

 

WinNTsetup switch WIM extract method (to wimlib) if CTRL+SHIFT+W. (Thanks for wimlib support, too!) Likewise, "no extracting" can be implementing. if it's not too much trouble. Could you do it? I would love to.

Thank you for reading and your interesting.

@lkertezcan

 

Sorry have no idea about the "Windows could not complete the installation" error, I never experienced that one.

 

The Windows Update can't work in OOBE mode anymore, that's a change Microsoft made with Windows 8.1.

 

There is a "no extracting" feature using command line 

 

WinNTSetup_x64.exe NT6 -noapply -bcd:none

 

But mount and preassigment only work for your current disks,

as it saves the MBR signature and the partition offset.

Not so sure you want that in your wim.

Hi, JFX,

Is there any way to configure PPPoE connection in WinNTSetup sysprep. Because Windows 10 is looking for internet connection to finish setup. And without internet computer starts restart cycling.

Or any other solution for solving this problem.

Regards

P.S. I found teporary answer - Shipt+F10->inetcpl.cpl-> tab Connections->Setup button (setup Internet connection). But this isn't so elegant