unable to capture windows 10 image after upgrading from windows 7 & 8.1
I am unable to capture a windows 10 professional image using windows deployment services after upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10,
I have experienced multiple issues including sysprep failing, WDS only being able to see the wrong volume and not the one I want to capture the image from, the capture progress getting stuck at a certain percentage and not completing etc.
is there a specific method to capture an image from a windows 10 after its been upgraded from 7 or 8.1?
Or Is it possible to capture the custom windows 10 image I have on my machine using the built in windows 10 'create a system image' option?
I have experienced multiple issues including sysprep failing, WDS only being able to see the wrong volume and not the one I want to capture the image from, the capture progress getting stuck at a certain percentage and not completing etc.
is there a specific method to capture an image from a windows 10 after its been upgraded from 7 or 8.1?
Or Is it possible to capture the custom windows 10 image I have on my machine using the built in windows 10 'create a system image' option?
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I even had issues with capturing an image after a clean install and it turned out to be the AppX applications that were causing problems. sysprep was failing and failing and failing ... turned out that any user that logs in gets a whole pile of the AppX apps installed in user mode ... and with every Windows update they kept re-installing themselves. You cannot do a sysprep EVER when there is even one single AppX application installed in user mode. So I had to create a throw-away admin user account to use while working on the image, do the customization then log off and disconnect from the internet (i could have just turned off updating but i didn't want auto updating turned off in the image so i just made sure it didn't update by unplugging from the network) then with the PC disconnected from the internet, login as the regular local admin account and delete the throw-away user (have to go into advanced user setup too and delete it because it still seems to linger there) before i could get a usable sysprepp-ed system to image.
Cliff is right, you cannot capture a Win10 image when it's an existing machine with all kinds of user stuff and after the in-place upgrade. Microsoft doesn't want you to do that though. They will tell you that they want you to do in-place upgrades on all of your machines. I will not do that. I've just had too many bad experiences with in-place upgrades. Oh sure they say all of that is different now and that you can trust the 7 to 10 upgrade process to do it right but i just don't buy it.
Cliff is right, you cannot capture a Win10 image when it's an existing machine with all kinds of user stuff and after the in-place upgrade. Microsoft doesn't want you to do that though. They will tell you that they want you to do in-place upgrades on all of your machines. I will not do that. I've just had too many bad experiences with in-place upgrades. Oh sure they say all of that is different now and that you can trust the 7 to 10 upgrade process to do it right but i just don't buy it.
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"Or Is it possible to capture the custom windows 10 image I have on my machine using the built in windows 10 'create a system image' option?"
yes run the capture TS on that machine