You need to add the drivers to the image and preferably sysprep the box before capturing. If you sysprep the box you can add a driver folder to the image or on the network and have sysprep look there for the drivers.

At this point I'd like to thank IcemanND for the great guide.
After having searched for any good tutorials with this I was finally able to create a WIM-file of my XP installation.

Thanks for this ! Great job !

Hello:
Can I capture image to USB(format as FAT32) & image file may lager to 4GB,
ie. How can I split at capture in progess,
I need capture & split in one procedure,
not use temp
Thanks!

From everything I have read the Split option cannot be run with the capture option. You could format your usb device as ntfs instead of fat32, and still make it bootable if that is what you are after.

looks nice thanks for the share bro

Thank for the great post. It will help out tremendously.

thanks for great post ..

forgive my ignorance in this matter, as it is, i have created an unattended xpsp3 pro disk with nlite and used driverpacks from driverpacks.net. plus multiple other bits of useful stuff for my company.. now i would like a fresh challenge..

is is possible ... to still use this source to create a usable wim image capable of running on completely different hardware?? or does the process have to bedone on a permachine basis?

if it canbe done, can someone please enlighten me. or possible even provide link....

Unfortunately, using a WIM file to image an XP machine still doesn't remove the limitations of the HAL. Using a WIM only gives you a file-based structure to store the base image, but it doesn't change the limitations XP has on the HAL. There are some other posts on the unattended XP section on ways to get XP to install on multiple hardware devices, but these are all independent of what imaging software you're using (ultimately, WIM won't help you achieve this).

The best implementation of Hal trickery that I have seen so far (concerning WIMs) is TheReasonIFail's:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=115243

Thanks for the guide, excellent!

Thanks for link to the Guide abd forgive my ignorance can we create an unattended xpsp3 image with nlite and use driverpacks for different hardwares.

You can create your base system any way that you desire and works for you. The guide only deals with capturing an image of your installed system and the how to deploy it back to another system.

Thanks A LOT Dude........
Your guide helpd me a LOT.

I have downloaded you pdf, and studied it profusely. I can make a bootable winpe and know how to capture my vista installation (vista installed on a computer with updates, adobe reader, 7zip etc) to a wim file. However, I am beating my brains out trying to figure how to take a dvd, copy the files to it and stick it in a duplicate computer (same motherboard, same hard drive) and get it to automatically load the vista wim file. I know how manually type the command and load but not automatically.
Please, if you could, give me some step by step instructions to make a DVD using the vista already configured on a computer and automate the process. I have used ghost2003 in the past, and just added commands to the autoexec bat file to make the loading of the image file automatic but imagex has shown me no love.
SeriasB

This post has been edited by SeriasBlack: Sep 28 2009, 02:41 PM

With the image mounted edit c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows\system32\startnet.cmd and add your own commands to the end of the file to automate functions at startup.