Yet, when I leave this autounattend.xml at the root of the installation media & then boot to it, the setup early on says it cannot read the ProductKey tag. Here's the autounattend.xml I prepared (my actual product key is censored with Xs): I then stripped it down for what I need it to do, while leaving everything out so they would default & hopefully leave me with exactly the same installation experience. I needed an answer file, so I went to for a template that I assumed works. I hope this helps.I've been trying to use DataImage component of Windows Setup to unpack an extra WIM (aside from insall.wim) to another partition ( D:) during windows installation. Sysprep is ran with the oobe, generalize, and unattend command line switches. Don't quote me on this as I set this up over a year ago.

Log back in as the user with all the profile changes and run the Sysprep command with the copyprofile switchįor some nagging reason I remember reading something to the effect that the built in local admin password needed to be set the same as the secondary local admin that was created. While logged in as administrator rename the Default users profile folder to something like Default.origĥ. Log back in as administrator and copy the sysprep files over etc.Ĥ. Log in as that user and make the required changesģ. Create a local user that is part of the local administrator group i.e. I have replaced the password hash with the word password and the username with the fake name 'username':

Default windows 7 sp1 xml autounattend