Comments on: How To Image and Deploy Windows 7 a Complete Guide – Using sysprep and imagex

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:58:43 +0000

sysprep is mostly for businesses, but there is no problem using it.
sysprep puts the OS back to factory so when you boot it does the oobe (out of the box experiance)

By: rob

rob — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:50:55 +0000

i just dont get this, i got to “sysprep your machine” before i thought what the f*** maybe this isnt what i thought it was going to be, i want to create an image and burn it to cd so i can wack it into a blank computer to install windows 7 and all applications, am i thick?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:36:46 +0000

Thanks heaps.

Your instructions worked. Microsoft’s didn’t – in fact Microsoft’s screwed up so badly that I had to reinstall the reference machine from scratch again.

Many thanks. I now have a 16GB USB stick with an image which includes more than 40 applications.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:05:21 +0000

Follow this guide to set a default profile http://benosullivan.co.uk/windows/how-to-copy-profile-in-windows-7-for-default-domain-netlogon/
Windows is basicaly installing itself fresh, it will overwrite built-in profiles

By: Gagan

Gagan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:03:12 +0000

this worked for me.. but the image deployed doesn’t preserve the profile settings & customizations I made to the Administrator user..

Ideally I’d like to autologin as Administrator & want my customizations applied to be deployed by this image ….

Any pointers to this pls ???

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:17:59 +0000

Try this article
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/davestork/archive/2009/08/14/quot-windows-could-not-finish-configuring-the-system-quot-argh.aspx

it can be related to paritions

By: ron

ron — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:30:00 +0000

Hi
I didn’t realise that “My Windows partition” needs to be
stated as Drive D:
The capture finally completed but when i reboot the pc at “Setup is starting services” the is an Install Windows error:
“Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the computer”
After a restart it just gets to the same point again, so now the pc is unusable and i cannot get to the new Install.wim file.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:41:57 +0000

check you added it to the cd.

copy imagex.exe from “C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\imagex.exe” to “c:\winpe\mount\windows\system32″

By: ron

ron — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:56:59 +0000

This command would not run since it could not find imagex.
x:\windows\system32\imagex /capture d:\ d:\install.wim “My Windows partition

By: Sarangapani

Sarangapani — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:48:00 +0000

Hi
Will this work on 64-bit OS? If yes what changes should I make to the commands?