Thank you for the welcome, and for the information about how you're doing things :-)
Yes, I created the InstallDrive environment variable, which is the drive letter of the USB drive, in the earlier <settings pass="specialize"> section, like this:
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment"...
Hi all - Apologies for necrothreading, especially on my first post, but my question relates directly to the original question posed by @hsehestedt. I am also using an autounattend.xml and want to follow the most recent guidance on recovery partition placement. After reading Kari's post abut...