Standalone media creation error 0x80041013

 Hi Admins,

You may face a typical error while creating standalone media from option "Create Task Sequence Media" of SCCM console. I faced standalone media creation error 80041013 ( Provider load failure) and it happened to me in SCCM 2010 version. I tried to create standalone media and selected media type as CD/DVD but it failed with error CreateMedia.exe finished with error code 80041013.

I started checking with ---

1) Whether boot image that I selected for media creation is update on DistributonDPs or not - found to be updated in all DPs. Then,

2) Checked whether all task sequence contents(although shows in console during creation) are properly updated in DPs - found udpated

3) Checked proper access in WMI and DCOM - found already present

4) Checked WMI consistency - found it was consistent

5) Tried to recreate custom boot image and retried the activity - same error appeared again

6) Tried to re configure boot image - still same error

Then I started checking events from Event Viewer console. I checked Application logs but not found any error related to issue. Then I checked System logs still didnt find any error related to error. Finally I landed to specific error related to WMI from Event Viewer console > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > WMI-Activity > Operation log 

In this place I found below which is actually giving me actual detail of error:

then immediately it logger below error:

After analyzing the event ID 5857, I understood that error is related with bcdprov.dll which was involved during BCD store creation. When I checked presence of the dll file in given location, I didnt find the file and when I checked with another server, same file was there. Not only bcdprov.dll was missing but also bcdsrv.dll and bcd.mof also found missing. I copied all these three files from working SCCM server from SCCM application server installed location under bin/i386 and paste in non-working machine.

After successful copy, I register both bcdprov.dll and bcdsrv.dll file and rebooted the non-working server. Post reboot, I logged in to the server and open SCCM console and perform same steps to create standalone media. Guess what ? IT WORKED. BOOM !!

So, culprit in my case of missing buddies of BCD(Boot Configuration Data) family. Now, it may be not similar fix for your case so I strongly suggest to first understand the error meaning from CMTRACE tool and then start checking events from Event Viewer. 

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