Unattended breaks install (Win 10 1709)

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uezmuek

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I am trying to create an USB install with win 10 - 1709 for several days now.
Without unattended install runs fine. Activating unattended mode always breaks installation
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Bootable Stick is created with latest rufus - and defaults ?

I have tried allmost every variations?
Is there any way to get the (formerly working) unattended mode back ?
 
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@uezmuek, that BSOD looks like a hardware/bios issue. Maybe unattended just makes the setup go faster and your potentially unstable machine crashes.

Please try Prime95 tool's In-place Large FTT test and see if it reports any errors within 10-15 min, until you get Worker Passed test 144 (second in line for each thread).
Then shut it off (right-click in tray and choose Stop, not just X).
Be careful, this thing heats up your CPU on the max, so save all your work before starting the test as it may well reboot or BSOD.
Check for any reported errors around calculation.

If your machine is stable, passes that short test of Prime or you don't want to use that extreme of a test, then see here and similar topics for more tips, that's a Windows+machine issue, not related to NTLite.
 
The BSOD happens later on
Problem seems to be formatting of the hd - partions are created by setup - then Setup stops (no files are copied) - later on BSOD
Same Ntlite setup - autounattended disabled - after manually working through the steps - files are copied - install works - Windows installs and runs flawless

So something connected with the activation of autounattended is preventing Windows install to copy files from USB to HD ?
Cross checked these on diffrent machines (Zotac C-Boxes 8GB, SSD Samsung 850EVO ) with diffrent USB Sticks and Win Version 1607 and 1709

Driver or filesystem issue ?
I am out of ideas :-/
 
Please see the first posting
without_unattended.xml - Unattended mode="0" - everything works nicely
unattended_without_hd.xml - Unattended mode="1" - repeated crashes as shown

using NtLite without Unattended Mode works great - but a lot of questions during install :-(
 
Both presets are the same if you don pay attention to "unattended mode" line.

In unattended:
Untick (uncheck/unmark) the checkbox copy to boot image.
In Reseal Change Audit to OOBE (i think here is your bug).
 
Thanks a lot for your input,
but I didn´t solve the problem - if unattended mode is activated Windows Setup stops at the first entry - copying files at 0% - some minutes later BSOD.
When unattended mode is not activated in nlite - Windows setup juts need some seconds to copy files and run alls the install.
everything tested on same machine etc ..
 
@uezmuek, I tried now your preset and all is fine.
You could try it in a VM, like VMware Player or VirtualBox to exclude the image itself.
And I hope you read the link I posted above about this being a known Windows issue on some hardware, so that you can continue researching in the right direction.

The beginning phase of setup is boot.wim, which you didn't even edit with NTLite. So it's only about the unattended XML, which cannot, in my knowledge, cause external copy image issues due to a potentially wrong entry.
If you converted install.WIM to ESD, yes, but that I don't see in the preset.
 
May be is better if you use Disk Template option instead

Set these options:
Disk ID 0
Partition ID 1
Partition Type MBR (if BIOS)/EFI if (UEFI)
Partition System size 550 MB

Partition ID 2
Partition Type Primary

The partition system size created by win 7 is 100 MB when the disk is unpartitioned, win 10 creates a 550 MB partition system (drive properties shows 548)

Make sure which kind of system is your PC:
BIOS or UEFI

I had installed win10 some time ago without a system partition with BIOS (or legacy) type system in a partitioned drive (not clean).
 
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