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Server 2008 Windows Error after deployed...Please help!

• Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:29 PMSparTech17

   
  

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  Windows Error
  "windows could not complete the installation, to install windows on this computer restart the installation"
  
  I'm running Server 2008 R2 as my WDS Server.
  
  The goal is to deploy a custom RAID 5 server image to other identical servers using WDS.
  
  I loaded Server 2008 Std. with a RAID 5 configuration on the master machine. Once installed, i sysprepped it for Audit Mode, Generalize and shut down. Once the server was shut down i turned it back on and booted into my x86 capture image (made with the Microsoft Windows Longhorn Setup (x86) boot image). It successfully captured the image locally to the C: and then also to the WDS server. After the capture was done, it was put into the correct Image Group. Next, i turned on the target server configured with RAID and booted to the Microsoft Windows Longhorn Setup (x86) boot wim. The custom image that i captured showed up just fine and the RAID 5 configuration showed up just fine and the install seemed to go flawlessly. After it finished (rebooted a couple times) it looked like it was going to show the server 08 user login screen but then threw up this error. Any ideas????
  
  Something tells me it might be a sysprep issue but i don't see where i went wrong.

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