Problem: You are trying to use the Sysprep and Capture task sequence of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 to sysprep a Windows 7 installation and then capture the sysprepped image as a WIM file, but it fails with the following error:
Operating system did not complete successfully
the error details include the following in their description:
ZTI ERROR – Unhandled error returned by ZTIBackup: Subscript out of range (p)
Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -2147467259 0x80004005
In addition, the SMSTS.log file includes the following information:
Failed to run the action: Create WIM. The storage control block address is invalid. (Error: 00000009; Source: Windows)
Resolution: The problem is that while your CustomSettings.ini file contains SkipCapture =YES, it doesn’t contain any lines specifying BackupShare or BackupFile, so MDT doesn’t know where to save the captured WIM file.
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