Windows 10: Answerfile: Cannot find partition?

So I have the Problem, that during Installation of Win 10 Pro with an answerfile on a Surface, after automated disk-wiping and creation of the partitions, which works like a charm, i get the error:

"Cannot find Partition to install"
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And I'm officially lost, because I doublechecked everything, checked setupact.log and setuperr.log (both literally empty), tried different versions and so on.

I'M quite sure, that this surface uses a MBR and not a GPT Disk, because changing the .xml towards GPT threw even more errors (cannot analyze answer file, wrong disk config and so on).



So I would really appreciate your help, since its friday evening here and I really wanna go home
What is it that i'm doing wrong?



<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="[http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State](http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State)" xmlns:xsi="[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)">

<DiskConfiguration>

<WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>

<Disk wcm:action="add">

<CreatePartitions>

<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">

<!-- Create the system partition-->

<Order>1</Order>

<Type>Primary</Type>

<Size>450</Size>

</CreatePartition>

<!-- Create the Windows partition and fill the rest of the hard disk -->

<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">

<Order>2</Order>

<Type>Primary</Type>

<Extend>true</Extend>

</CreatePartition>

</CreatePartitions>

<ModifyPartitions>

<!-- Modify the system partition-->

<ModifyPartition wcm:action="modify">

<Order>1</Order>

<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>

<Format>NTFS</Format>

<Label>System</Label>

</ModifyPartition>

<!-- Modify the Windows partition -->

<ModifyPartition wcm:action="modify">

<Order>2</Order>

<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>

<Format>NTFS</Format>

<Label>Windows</Label>

<Letter>C</Letter>

<Active>true</Active>

</ModifyPartition>

</ModifyPartitions>

<DiskID>0</DiskID>

<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>

</Disk>

</DiskConfiguration>

<ImageInstall>

<OSImage>

<InstallTo>

<DiskID>0</DiskID>

<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>

</InstallTo>

<InstallFrom>

<MetaData wcm:action="add">

<Key>/IMAGE/INDEX</Key>

<Value>1</Value>

</MetaData>

</InstallFrom>

<InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>

<WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>

</OSImage>

</ImageInstall>

<UserData>

<ProductKey>

<WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>

<!--Generic Key win 10 Pro: VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T -->

<Key>VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T</Key>

</ProductKey>

<AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>

</UserData>

</component>

</settings>

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Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are trying to extend the Volume of Drives and create partitions from C: drive.

I would suggest you to follow the steps and check if it helps you.

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