Not sure if it applies but:
.. I tried doing a unattended installation from a Virtual VMWARE environment. after doing the SYSPREP(so I could later move this preconfigured installation to a physical machine), I keep getting this loop or an error saying windows 8
"windows could not finish configuring the system ..."
error 0x8007139F
I found that; after sysprep.. it somehow resets the default partition information (from device0 hdd0 partition0 to device0 hdd0 partition1) upon reconfiguring the vmware installation to use the partition1 config, it started working fine again.
the windeploy log says :
[windeploy.exe] ------------------------------------------------
2013-05-22 20:11:28, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line []...
2013-05-22 20:11:28, Info [windeploy.exe] LogBootDeviceInfo:The firmware boot device ARC path is [multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)]
and NT path is [\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1].
2013-05-22 20:11:28, Info [windeploy.exe] LogBootDeviceInfo:The system boot device ARC path is [multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)]
and NT path is [\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1].
2013-05-22 20:11:28, Warning [windeploy.exe] SetupCl has pending operations; blocking deployment process until they've been completed.
2013-05-22 20:11:28, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot
complete at this time.; hr = 0x8007139f