NOTE: This article is meant for system administrators only. DO NOT CHANGE YOUR REGISTRY if you administer your PRIVATE PC!

If you want to create images and execute Sysprep, sometimes it can happen that the following error message is displayed when the computer was restarted:

The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation can not proceed. To install windows click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation.

After restarting the computer an error message appears every time you restart the system, that prevents Windows from starting properly. But you’ve already prepared the system for the image creation so you don’t want to reinstall the system.

In this article I will show you how to save your image, without reinstalling the system. (more…)