I'm new to PE..about 3 days in actually.

I'm not unfamiliar with imaging, as I've just finished desiging the image for my company.

I understand the process of taking the WinPE directory from the CD, copying to to a build directory, and then you use MKimg...

But I don't know how to customize it. I really don't want to do much more than remove some network drivers, make sure it has SATA support, and launch ghost.exe

In the WinPE help file, it says I can remove *.nf files from \%windir%\. But other than the winpetemp folder I create to make the iso, i don't know where to edit those.

And if I edit the WinPETemp folder..how do I make it into an ISO?

Oscdimg -h -n c:\winpetemp c:\peiso.iso?

Also, How do I add Ghost and Sata drivers into it?

IMHO I cannot see the reason for reducing the image size. Save a few KB or seconds Isn't really worth the hassle of a broken WinPE disk.

You need to run ghost32.exe in Pe, this can be either manual or scripted.

Locate the starnet.cmd file, edit the rubbish out then add your commands to the end. Bit like autoexec.bat.

Sata is support though not all controllers. Adding Sata drivers is easy well covered in this forum just do a search.

To test if you can see your Sata Drive, boot to WinPE, change drive to c: and look. If it is a clean drive run diskpart and select drive 0, if iot mounts it works.

Why is my CD not bootable from the above command? Am I missing something?

did you make the PE bootable by adding the /boot switch when you captured the directory?