Inaccessible Boot Device

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Hi all

I finally purchased a licence and after a couple of tries, my ISO boots and installs ok (apparently) but the boot comes up with this error:
"Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart: INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE"

I am trying to install W10_64 running the ISO inside a VM.
My ntLite is licensed but I did not provide any install MS KEY to the ISO.

What could be causing this?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Roy
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Hi Roy,

thanks for your support.

Most probably the removed drivers, please attach the preset used. And feel free to remake one with Hardware Support - Individual devices, and Drivers, kept.
Or try the Components - Compatibility - Hardware lists to protect the needed drivers, sometimes it's not enough.
 
Hi nuhi

Thank YOU for your support.
I am trying to follow the "Advanced image reduction tutorial" but i'm struggling.
I have tried the Win7 -several times (gave up as lots of issues - some reported in the forum)
and also W10. I know I must be doing something wrong... It's been a while since I used nLite... I seemed so simple back then, lol!
At the moment I am still learning and trying different settings...
I must read more on the forum and learn with you guys!

I will try again paying more attention to the drivers.
If it fails again I will post my preset.

Many thanks in advance.

Roy

PS: Long live ntlite!
 
Roy, take out 3rd party drivers only, unless they are needed for a compatibility option. Experience nLiting will help even though 7+ are different beasts compared to xp. If you use 7 i do have a Lite preset for it that shouldnt give you any problems.
 
Roy, it's much simpler to start your own removals and trim more as you understand what is what.
Since NTLite has the "Live" mode, meaning you can edit C:\Windows without reinstallation, you can always remove more later.

I would suggest testing in a virtual machine instead, like VMWare Player, Hyper-V, VirtualBox.
That said, if you find any issues by removing components, make sure to report it, don't waste time retrying.
For example you can start by attaching your current preset if keeping the drivers didn't help to fix the issue.
Make sure the preset file doesn't have any private info in it.
 
If you are trying to slim Windows 10 1803 to 700 MB ISO with the linked tutorial, sure you will ran in to a lot of issues as on every new build Ms ties more components between them and there are more dependencies and resulting bigger ISO's.

Try to build a "slim" base source (it would save you good time on every process), as checking all the boxes in compatibility options and remove everything else, make a backup of the sources and start trying to remove as the tutorial says.

Saving as ESD is not worth my time as it could take more than an hour compressing only, WIM compression is a lot faster.
 
Hi all
Many thanks for your comments and suggestions.
At the moment, I am focusing on W10, trying the ISO on a VM.
My latest attempt (v5) can now install and boot but I get this message:
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After a few reboots... no results... it starts install from scratch again...

I am attaching the Preset... Maybe someone can take a look and check what am I doing wrong?
Many thanks in advance
 
Try not removing all related to the drive, bitlocker, volume shadow, windows recovery, storage spaces, recovery agent, Guarded Host (maybe there are more).
 
Roy, I tried your preset, it installed fine.
However I tried it on an English US ISO, I see you're using the EN-GB; please try keeping the "Languages - English US".
If that helps let me know and I'll get your ISO.

Other than that, you can remove whatever the UI allows, if it's not hardware related.

Few more questions if above doesn't help:
- was there anything pre-configured/removed on that image that is not on this preset?
In other words are you starting with a fresh image, non-edited.
- maybe using an unattended answer file created elsewhere - (auto)unattended.xml?

Thanks for your feedback.
 
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