Error 0x80070003 received during deployment of Windows 7

You receive error code 0x80070003 when you run the following command

"dism /image:C:\Temp\mount /get-drivers"


When you inspect the dism.log you find entries as shown below:


2010-06-09 16:27:57, Info                  DISM   DISM Manager: PID=9320 Image session successfully loaded from the temporary location: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Temp\B0BB3D4B-8C52-4390-B4FE-E7A80C182515 - CDISMManager::CreateImageSession
2010-06-09 16:27:57, Info                  DISM   DISM Provider Store: PID=4532 Getting Provider OSServices - CDISMProviderStore::GetProvider
2010-06-09 16:27:57, Info                  DISM   DISM Provider Store: PID=4532 Provider has previously been initialized.  Returning the existing instance. - CDISMProviderStore::Internal_GetProvider
2010-06-09 16:27:57, Info                  DISM   DISM OS Provider: PID=4532 Setting Windows folder to C:\Temp\mount\Windows - CDISMOSServiceManager::SetWindowsDirectory
2010-06-09 16:27:57, Info                  CSI    00000001 Shim considered [l:274{137}]"\??\C:\Temp\mount\Windows\Servicing\x86_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_0935b76c289e0fd5\pkgmgr.exe" : got STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
2010-06-09 16:27:57, Info                  CSI    00000002 Shim considered [l:268{134}]"\??\C:\Temp\mount\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_0935b76c289e0fd5\pkgmgr.exe" : got STATUS_SUCCESS
2010-06-09 16:28:03, Error                 DISM   DISM OS Provider: PID=4532 Failed to mount the remote registry. - CDISMOSServiceManager::SetWindowsDirectory(hr:0x80070003)
2010-06-09 16:28:03, Error                 DISM   DISM.EXE: Failed to set the windows directory to 'C:\Temp\mount\Windows'. HRESULT=80070003