Sysprep Issue

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I've been trying to create an WDS image of a Lenovo T430 laptop, but for some screwed up reason, I haven't been successful, so I gave up on trying and tried booting the laptop back to the desktop.

Unfortunately the sysprep caused an error when trying to boot the laptop. It got stuck in a loop saying that the laptop is 'Setup is starting services' and reboot which creates a loop.

A user at Microsoft Answers had a solution:

User: gpsac
Answered with:

Ran into this with a Gateway "All in One". A friends machine and someone must have inadvertantly lauched a reinstall or something.

Anyway, I found the below instructions in another forum and they worked for this Gateway.
1) On the same error screen press SHIFT+F10 and it will open up a black Window. (a command prompt window)

2) In the black windows type the word "regedit"(without the inverted commas and hit enter. That will open the registry editor. In the Registry Editor.. Browse to.... HKLocal machine/SYSTEM/SETUP/STATUS/ChildCompletion, and after highliting childcompletion,on the right hand side check for setup.exe. if the value is 1 change it to 3.(by double clicking on setup.exe and changing the value shown in the box). Then close the registry editor and then also close the black window. Then click on OK for the error and the computer will restart and the installation may complete. just try it and let me know if it worked.

Good Luck!


This worked for me, and which luckily I don't have to re-install the laptop :) 

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