windows could not parse or process unattended answer file [unattended.xml] The specified file...

[Guest gduer]

I trying to make default and mandatory profiles using Article ID 973289

Made changes desktop etc using admin account

Used Windows System Image Management tool using Windows 7 DVD 32bit to make unattend1.xml file

 

Here unattend1.xml file:

 

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">

<settings pass="specialize">

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>

</component>

</settings>

<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="catalog:d:/sources/install_windows 7 enterprise.clg" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />

</unattend>

 

Copied to c:\windows\system32\sysprep folder

 

Ran sysprep

 

C:\Windows\System32\sysprep>sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:unattend1.xml

 

Log file:

 

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info SYSPRP ========================================================

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info SYSPRP === Beginning of a new sysprep run ===

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info SYSPRP ========================================================

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f004d] SYSPRP The time is now 2010-01-07 11:27:22

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f004e] SYSPRP Initialized SysPrep log at C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f0054] SYSPRP ValidateUser:User has required privileges to sysprep machine

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f007e] SYSPRP FCreateTagFile:Tag file C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Sysprep_succeeded.tag does not already exist, no need to delete anything

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f005f] SYSPRP ParseCommands:Found supported command line option 'GENERALIZE'

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f005f] SYSPRP ParseCommands:Found supported command line option 'OOBE'

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f005f] SYSPRP ParseCommands:Found supported command line option 'SHUTDOWN'

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f005f] SYSPRP ParseCommands:Found supported command line option 'UNATTEND'

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [0x0f004a] SYSPRP WaitThread:Entering spawned waiting thread

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info [sysprep.exe] UnattendFindAnswerFile: Looking at explicitly provided unattend file [\c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend1.xml]...

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Error [sysprep.exe] UnattendFindAnswerFile: Explicitly provided unattend file [\c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend1.xml] does not exist.

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Warning SYSPRP SysprepSearchForUnattend: Found invalid unattend file while searching; hr = 0x300012

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Warning SYSPRP WinMain:Encountered invalid unattend file during search; hrResult = 0x80070002

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info IBS UnattendErrorFromResults: Hit an unattend error; dumping any info we have about the failure...

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info IBS UnattendDumpSetting: ------Unattend setting error / warning------

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info IBS UnattendDumpSetting: Error code = 0x80070002

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info IBS UnattendDumpSetting: File path = [\c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend1.xml]

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info IBS UnattendDumpSetting: --------------------------------------------

2010-01-07 11:27:22, Info IBS UnattendErrorFromResults: Error text = Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [\c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend1.xml]. The specified file does not exist.

2010-01-07 11:27:42, Info [0x0f004c] SYSPRP WaitThread:Exiting spawned waiting thread

2010-01-07 11:27:42, Info [0x0f0052] SYSPRP Shutting down SysPrep log

2010-01-07 11:27:42, Info [0x0f004d] SYSPRP The time is now 2010-01-07 11:27:42

 

Thanks if you can help

GD

 

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