Sysprep (The System Preparation Tool) prepares an installation of Windows for duplication, auditing, and customer delivery.
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Autofill Product Key Windows Vista / 7
I am using sysprep to make a generic version of Windows and put it on a bunch of computers I am redoing for a customer. I plan to later develop more extensive images and go through the entire WAIK to ...
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Why did my sysprep for Windows 7 Professional come up as Ultimate when I rebooted? [closed]
I used sysprep for Windows 7 Professional. I don't even own Ultimate. When I rebooted my sysprepped machine, it came up as Ultimate. How can this happen? Is there a way to make it professional ...
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How does drbl-winroll works?
Currently I have a Windows 7 system in audit mode for sysprepping it. I installed drbl-winroll and going to /generalize it. Is that everything? Will drbl-winroll change the hostname after the OOBE ...
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Moving an OS installation to new hardware? [closed]
When hardware eventually goes bust, it would for my use cases nearly always be the best thing if I could just plug the old harddisk (or, if that one was broken, a new harddisk with the backup disk ...
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Why does my VM hang on “Windows is loading files…” during a sysprep and capture task sequence?
My nice, well crafted reference machine will not boot at all! I'm trying to run a sysprep and capture task sequence (MDT 2010 and WDS off server 2012). I ran litetouch.vbs off the deployment share ...
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sysprep generalize when upgrading motherboard or changing SATA mode
This is my first post here and was looking for a possible solution to my question.
I have been using sysprep generalize when upgrading motherboards, or switching SATA mode operations from IDE - AHCI ...
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What kind of “personalisation” does sysprep remove exactly?
I intend to move all data from my old laptop to a new one. I will be following "method 3" from this guide:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/135077-windows-7-installation-transfer-new-computer.html
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Sysprep could not complete
I recently had to change the SID on my virtual machine.
After a reboot I got this error message:
I opened the Microsoft Management console (Shift+F10 » mmc) and head over to user and local computer ...
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Problems with Sysprep
I was on Windows 8 until sometime ago, then my HDD port broke and i had to change for something like... Ubuntu bootable live DVD, i used it to manage the creation of something smaller to get into a ...
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Can I use sysprep to fix a booting BSOD when migrating a Windows 7 VHD to another computer?
I have Windows 7 installed on a VHD file(win7eng.vhd) on my computer A. Also, I have computer B that have a copy of Win7 installed physically.
Recently, I tried to copy win7eng.vhd to my computer B ...
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customize windows 7 profile in domain
I'm having trouble understanding the process to customize the default profile.
how can i make certain changes that can only be made while the computer is member of a domain and copy it later to the ...
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imaging Windows XP
We have a number of old gateway computers that came with Windows XP. We would like to make an image of one of these machines to speed up repairs on all the rest. Will running sysprep on windows XP ...
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Creating Images for OS deployment
We are looking to start creating images of our workstations to use when deploying workstations or to speed up restorations of existing workstations. I've been doing some research into this and the ...
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Does a sysprepped install modify the boot record of other drives?
If I install W7 with only that drive attached to computer A and sysprep the installation, when I plug the disk into computer B where I want to run it (and change it to first boot disk in bios) will it ...
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Error sysprepping Windows 8 Enterprise 90-day trial
I am using the Windows 8 Enterprise 90-day trial to evaluate the latest version of Windows for a private school. The way I work is that I use sysprep to prepare an generalized image, then I clone it ...
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Restoring a windows 7 partition from Mac bootcamp to PC laptop
I have a MacBookPro running Windows 7 using Bootcamp. I want to replace this laptop with a pc workstation laptop but would like to take the Windows 7 partition and move it to the pc laptop. There ...
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blue screen after sysprep
I'm trying to make a Hyper-V image on a Dell PowerEdge T320 machine, but whenever the OS loads up after the sysprep, the server hangs with a black screen for some minutes, and then a blue screen ...
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Windows XP asks me for cd-key when i put the cd-key in the sysprep.inf [closed]
Windows XP
I did setupmgr.exe for a sysprep installation and i put my cd-key
then i do sysprep.exe and reseal the Windows and then i reboot
And then it asks me to accept eula, and then to put my ...
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How to make a custom Windows 8 installation
What is the step-by-step way to make a custom Windows 8 installation ?
For example, with a minimal example, I would like an image which :
Has a single user named "User"
This user has Chrome and ...
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Automatically generating a prefixed hostname during Sysprep
What I'm trying to do is set Sysprep to automatically rename the computer prior to joining the domain. If I put * in the answer file it generates a random name, but I would like to be able to apply a ...
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Integrate Office 2010 (PKC Version) into Windows for deployment?
I'm having a hard time preparing my Windows 7 master image (sysprep), which will be deployed to various notebooks. Unfortunately we've only bought Office 2010 Home & BUsiness PKC (Product Key ...
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Is there a Linux equivalent to Windows' SysPrep
Coming into a large number of old PCs that I want to be able to wipe the drives and reload with a "Factory" install of Linux on the HDD.
These machines have no CD-ROMs, so I am looking for something ...
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Sysprep + Generalize + Windows 7 - Hardware has changed?
It was to my understanding that using Generalize will cause the system to ignore hardware changes and treat the hardware currently installed as the original hardware. However, I’m running in to an ...
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Citrix Desktop Lock and Sysprep Issue
We are currently creating an image to essentially convert our desktops into thin clients to point to our XenDesktop environment. To do this, we are using Citrix's Desktop Lock tool which locks down ...
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Windows 7 OEM reinstallation disk on a larger drive does not complete. Is there a work-around? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Window's can't be configured after a system restore
The 320gb hard disk of my Sony Vaio crashed, and I asked Sony reinstallation disk, while buying a new Western ...
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Sysprepped image will not complete setup
I'm having a problem installing/setting up an image.
Background:
I've created a Windows 7 Enterprise image (i.e. installed OS, installed applications, configured settings, etc.). Then I sysprepped ...
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Sysprep Windows XP 64bit version
Is there a sysprep client that will work windows xp 64bit? I couldn't find one and everything I tried just says that the program can't run on the machine or I have the wrong version of windows.
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How do I prepare my system for cloning, before using CloneZilla?
Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:
Clone or Image a PC
I've got 100 PC's to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC's
with software, drivers, settings, configs, licenses etc, then
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Creating Windows 7 images in Audit mode
We are a small computer shop, and got asked to build 20 computers, all the same (basically) for a company. I have fiddled around with Audit mode before, and know it can be used for creating an image ...
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When does plug and play detection occur in the sysprep process?
I am working on a Windows 7 image for my organization. We use a Token based activation package which requires installation during audit mode. Here is my process
On my Master computer:
Using our ...
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'Upgrading' from XP to Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Upgrade from XP Professional to Windows 7
XP to Windows 7 upgrade, WITHOUT reinstalling stuff
I need to upgrade a lot of PCs from XP to 7. I'm aware I can't do a ...
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Some Start menu items become unlocalized after sysprep
I successfully deployed Windows 7 on some computers.
Now, in the Start menu, some items are in French (the native installation language) and other are unlocalized. I can see Welcome Center and ...
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HAL is missing or corrupt after a Sysprep /generalize
I'm currently preparing a computer in order to deploy Windows 7 Professional partition image over a network.
First, I would like to test the deployment from this computer A to another one B. So, in ...
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How can I stop sysprep from interacting with boot on windows 7
I have recently had a laptop sent back to supplier for fixing a mainboard fault.
I got it back today and every time it boots up I am faced with:
"Setup is preparing windows for first
time use"
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Universal Windows XP With Ghost and Sysprep
I have an idea but im not sure whether it is possible and looking for advice on how to accomplish this.
If i was to try and deploy Windows XP Sysprepped image from a Lenovo Thinkcentre 6073-CTO and ...
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Is there a good alternative to sysprep?
I need to save an image of a machine and redeploy it later, but the hardware will be different on each computer (so I can't use clonezilla without driver problems). I've done some research and it ...
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Should I enter my Office product key before running sysprep?
I'm planning on cloning a Windows XP install, and am a little confused about sysprep. I know that it blanks out the XP product key, but what about other software?
If I install Office 2007 and enter a ...
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Can SysPrep (or anything else) be used to make a Win XP partition from another computer bootable?
I've used Paragon Backup and Recovery Free as recommended to me in my other question, to backup my C: (Win XP) and D: (installed apps) partitions.
Before taking the rather scary step of breaking the ...
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Ghost Image - windows asks for activation on when deployed to VM
I have several images created with Ghost Solution Suite (v11 I believe), the images have been in use for a few years now, but I am finally to the point where I have enough time to attempt to ...
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Problem with using sysprep tool for running Windows on a different Hardware
I am using sysprep tool for running Windows 7 on a different Hardware. What I do is that run sysprep on a computer, select System Audit, check the Generalize check box, select Shutdown, click OK and ...
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Unattended Vista without Monitor
I have a laptop with a busted monitor (I can only see the leftmost inch of the screen). I need to reinstall Vista on this computer. However, the external monitor is a function of the video card ...
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What is Sysprep? How is it useful?
I have read a lot of posts suggesting to "run sysprep" on a system. I have done some looking around, but Microsoft's site is confusing at best.
What is the purpose of sysprep?
What does sysprep do ...
