I have a Windows 8.1 x64 image that I sysprep'd and captured onto a Windows 2008R2 WDS server. When attempting to install it on a fresh client, the first action "Copying Windows Files" happens in about 2 seconds, showing a successful green checkmark. Then the second action (Getting files ready for installation) ends up displaying the following message:
Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation.
I have read through a lot of forums, and the closest I found was someone had the same issue because there was a file called WinPEPGE.sys was lodged in the image. But even that didn't show a symptom of the files being copied in a matter of seconds.
Two facts that might be pertinent: The client I am installing to is a non-UEFI (BIOS) system so the partitions being created in the unattend.txt do not include a EFI type partition. Also, the first system that Windows 8.1 was originally installed, sysprep'd, and captured from was a UEFI system.
Here is the setuperr.log that I pulled from the drive being installed to:
2013-11-01 17:11:22, Error [0x0b0039] WDS GetAdaptersAddresses failed; result:0x0000006f status:0x8007006f 2013-11-01 17:11:22, Error [0x0b003b] WDS QueryAdapterStatus failed (status 0x8007006f); will retry 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:11:23, Error [0x0b003a] WDS [gle=0x0000276d] 2013-11-01 17:12:18, Error [0x0600a7] IBS MoveOldOSFiles:Failed to move [C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\] to [C:\Windows.old\$WINDOWS.~BT\].[gle=0x00000005] 2013-11-01 17:12:18, Error [0x06009d] IBS DeployImage:MoveOldOSFiles failed; hr = 0x80070005[gle=0x00000005] 2013-11-01 17:12:18, Error [0x060082] IBS Callback_ImageTransfer:Failed to lay down the OS image; hr = 0x80070005[gle=0x00000005]