Windows 10: Create media for automated unattended install of Windows 10  

Mishu said:

I have a question what installation media are you using in Step Six?

Hi Mishu, welcome to Ten Forums.

When installing Windows on reference machine, that machine's only purpose being to allow us to customize Windows to be captured to a custom WIM file, I use valid installation media for the specific Windows 10 build I want to customize. There's no need to use the autounattend.xml or a special ISO at this point, nothing special yet. The autounattend.xml will be first used when we create our custom ISO, then it needs to be on root of ISO_Files before making an ISO using that folder.

Use the same ISO to clean install on reference machine than you used to copy files to ISO_Files folder.

Kari

ashforduk said:

I was just wondering if anyone can help.
When I have followed this guide (Which is very good) my custom usb image doesn't seem to run my sysprep file which adds the user account etc. also the autorun sysprep file has GB keyboard setting in it but when you boot of the USB stick I have to select the keyboard etc.
Just seems like both of my sysprep files are not being read or are failing. can anyone help resolve this issue
Thank you

The instructions in this tutorial have been tested several times. If you follow given instructions to build autounattend.xml file to automate Windows Setup, and to build unattend.xml to automate OOBE, it works.

Notice that in instructions there are nothing you can just choose to leave out. Add every component told to your answer files.

If you want to, you can ZIP your answer files and upload the ZIP archive here, I will then check the files to see if there are any obvious errors.

Kari