Windows could not finish configuring the system… Sysprep fail
An annoying error this morning. After prepping a laptop, running sysprep with the audit mode the following error occurres:
Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the computer.
The error could be fixed with hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981542/ well how do we get it on the laptop:
- When the error: Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the computer. Press SHIFT – F10. Don’t press OK.
- At this point you can do basicly anything
- My advice is to start services.msc and start all of the services which are marked: Automatic
- Start compmgmt.msc, enable the administrator user, or create an extra user with administrator rights
- Start explorer.exe
- You can now Switch the user
- Log in with the admin user and start the hotfix
Well if you just want to break the sysprep process:
- When the error: Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the computer. Press SHIFT – F10. Don’t press OK.
- Start compmgmt.msc, enable the administrator user, or create an extra user with administrator rights
- Start Regedit
- Go to HKLMSystemSetup
- Clear the Cmdline value
- Reset the MiniSetupInProgress, SetupType and SystemSetupInProgress to 0 / zero
- Restart the machine
Daniel Nikolic
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