Did you upgrade to Win8 or did you do a clean install?
Did you run the Win8 Upgrade Assistant before you upgraded to or installed Win8 and did your computer hardware pass with flying colours?
Hi friend:
I encountered a problem when doing sysprep.
When installing Windows 8, I used to do following steps, it always succeeded:
Step one. press Ctrl+Shift+F3 to enter Audit mode
Step two. Install all necessary drivers
Step three. Install all Windows Updates
Step four. Open sysprep tool by typing sysprep.exe in command line, in the sysprep tool I selected "Enter OOBE" "Generalize" "Quit", wait for it done.
Store five. Reboot the system and capture OOBE shipping image by DISM command.
For this time,, I added an additional step, as step4 below. I updated 15 Windows Store apps to fix some obvious app store bugs.
Step1. press Ctrl+Shift+F3 to enter Audit mode
Step2. Install all necessary drivers
Step3. Install all Windows Updates
Step4. Update Windows Store apps(Sign in an Windows Store account, update, then sign out)
Step5. Open sysprep tool by typing sysprep.exe in command line, in the sysprep tool I selected "Enter OOBE" "Generalize" "Quit", wait for it done,
Step6. Reboot the system and capture OOBE shipping image by DISM command.
BUT, I got an error in step5, When I do sysprep, showing "A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine."
So if updated Windows Store apps, it always failed to sysprep /oobe the device. But it seems necessory to update Windows Store.
Would you please help me to solve it, thanks.
Source: http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/89c281a1-a9c5-4144-9e70-5f3c03f1b366
Sure sounds like the same problem to me...