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Regisry contain invalid pathes - 5/7/2008 3:50:56 AM

Or.Tsemah

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Hi,
I have a strange issue in which after initial setup which contain Two HDs (C: and D:) in which the Full Vista installation is put on C: i try to sysprep /generalize the machine, only to encounter the "The system registry contains invalid file paths. Installation cannot proceed" Descibed here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947245/

This doesn't happen on all of my models and both disks partitions are recreated during the initial Setup

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RE: Regisry contain invalid pathes - 5/7/2008 9:31:18 AM

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Hmm it definately sounds like it is caused by having the multiple drives during the capture. If D: is empty can you sysprep and capture your image with just a C: drive and then create the D: during the deployment phase using the diskpart text file?

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RE: Regisry contain invalid pathes - 5/7/2008 12:05:08 PM

Or.Tsemah

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I just wanted to run Sysprep /oobe /generalize on my machine for testing purposes and it failed
It was just a clean install With C: and D: (I can't remove D: as this is an OEM Purpose Machine)

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RE: Regisry contain invalid pathes - 5/7/2008 1:06:28 PM

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I am curious since the MS article describes hardcoded values to invalid drives; If you search through the registry for D: or D:\ do you find any references? Did Vista maybe put some hardcoded references to D:\ that is causing the sysprep to fail? Just curious is all, not that it may help the cause..

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RE: Regisry contain invalid pathes - 5/8/2008 3:54:39 PM

Or.Tsemah

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I Admint, it is a bit weird
The main thing i've found that is different is that during Vista installation, i delete both drives partition but when i choose to install the OS into Disk 0, the setup ask if i want to create a system partition on Disk 1 because Disk 0 does not have a Filesystem which fits Vista criteria

I will check the registry for Drive D:

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RE: Regisry contain invalid pathes - 5/8/2008 4:37:26 PM

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Hmm That definately sounds like it may be the culprit since it obviously put some system files on Disk 1 during installation. Though I am not sure why Disk 0 would not have a FileSystem which fits Vista criteria if you could've done a Format on that partition ahead of time. Interesting, post your findings.

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