HyperV syspreped WIM fails to boot on some hardware

[Raymond Preston1]

Hi, Im trying to boot a hyperv image of Windows 11 on FEC XPPC hardware (HyperV Gen2 to UEFI X64 hardware) I have tried the following methods to apply the hyperv image -Cloning the disk image to the physical SSD including the EFI partition -Capturing and splitting a WIM and replacing the install.wim on a usb drive with the captured split wim (windows creates the EFI partition) In both cases the windows install fails to load as sooon as it tries to boot before the login screen appears. The eventlogs in WINDOWS\System32\winevt\Logs have not been modified neither the application or system logs

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