“ZTI ERROR – Unhandled error returned by LTIApply: Not found (-2147217406 0x80041002)” Error When Running Sysprep And Capture Task Sequence.

Scenerio: Running a “Sysprep and Capture” MDT 2013 Task Sequence on an updated Windows 8.1 Enterprise VM.  Task Sequence fails at the “Apply Windows PE” step.

“ZTI ERROR – Unhandled error returned by LTIApply: Not found  (-2147217406  0x80041002)” error you would assume means the Task Sequence can not locate or access the boot.wim that it needs to prep as the boot image, in order to capture up the Syspreped image, but it actually doesn’t have anything to do with that!

It occurs because your image doesn’t contain a “C:\Boot” folder.  Good thing Microsoft wrote this up, because I ran into this at 7:30am EST and my troubleshooting hat was still cooling off from the night before.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797676

/BG