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I tried to run sysprep before making an image of an XPsp2 Professional box.
I received an error and was unable to run sysprep. At microsoft, I found a
newer version of sysprep for use w/XPsp1 (5.1.2600.1106)
I ran this through the run command, not the command line
First, I got the normal sysprep warning box, with a header that said Sysprep
Tool 2.0 on it.
Next, a gray dialogue box came up with the following choices on it (there
was no way around it, had to choose to be able to run the utility)
1) To skip Windows Welcome or Mini-setup & configure the installation as
scripted in winbom.ini, click Factory
2) To reboot this computer & manually test the install, click Audit
(available only in factory mode)
3) To prepare for end user, click Reseal
I clicked 3) Reseal and for options, the only thing I checked was to use
Mini-setup.
Sysprep proceeded to run and shut the PC down as normal. I then made my
image. When I pushed the image down onto a fresh PC, after mini-setup ran,
there was a balloon regarding 30 days to run Windows Activation. Since we
have volume licensing, this is not something that should be coming up on
these systems at all, as far as I understand. I must have re-enabled Windows
Activation by clicking that 3rd option in sysprep.
What can I do to fix my image at this point? If I need to start over, fine,
but I need to know which of the other 2 options in sysprep I should choose. I
also saw that there IS an updated version of sysprep to use w/sp2, but I
don't want to complicate my original problem further.
TIA, lostagain
I received an error and was unable to run sysprep. At microsoft, I found a
newer version of sysprep for use w/XPsp1 (5.1.2600.1106)
I ran this through the run command, not the command line
First, I got the normal sysprep warning box, with a header that said Sysprep
Tool 2.0 on it.
Next, a gray dialogue box came up with the following choices on it (there
was no way around it, had to choose to be able to run the utility)
1) To skip Windows Welcome or Mini-setup & configure the installation as
scripted in winbom.ini, click Factory
2) To reboot this computer & manually test the install, click Audit
(available only in factory mode)
3) To prepare for end user, click Reseal
I clicked 3) Reseal and for options, the only thing I checked was to use
Mini-setup.
Sysprep proceeded to run and shut the PC down as normal. I then made my
image. When I pushed the image down onto a fresh PC, after mini-setup ran,
there was a balloon regarding 30 days to run Windows Activation. Since we
have volume licensing, this is not something that should be coming up on
these systems at all, as far as I understand. I must have re-enabled Windows
Activation by clicking that 3rd option in sysprep.
What can I do to fix my image at this point? If I need to start over, fine,
but I need to know which of the other 2 options in sysprep I should choose. I
also saw that there IS an updated version of sysprep to use w/sp2, but I
don't want to complicate my original problem further.
TIA, lostagain