Does Sysprep Copy profile work or not?

I am trying to sysprep a test machine since we will have to be switching to windows 7. I have done a clean install of windows 7 and the only thing I am putting into the WAIK answer file is copy profile=true in specialize pass. However I cannot get it to work at all. I get an error about not being able to parse the xml file then pc says computer restarted unexpectedly click OK to restart computer and install windows. This of course causes a boot loop.

I have followed Microsoft's instructions and basically every tutorial on the net. I have had to reformat and install Windows 7 no joke 8 times.

Does this actually work or should I just forget it.

Anyone who also has tis problem, i'm trying to solve this but searching the net there was no solution available.

i've managed to solve the problem. For some reasen my development computer was not in audit mode anymore. Luckily I had a snapshot in my virtual pc so I could go easily back. I sysprepped the machine and the error was gone!

I can confirm the copyprofile parameter works like a charm!

Thanx.

I had a similar issue to this, in that sysprep couldn't parse my answerfile.

FIX:

Save unattend.xml in notepad (type the full name and extension), select filetype *.* All Files and change the encoding to UTF-8.