r00ster

I've just successfully used the image on a different computer with sysprep. I didn't use the steps you provided but just clicked on OOBE (Out Of the Box Experience) and checked generalize. The computer did not shut-down but stayed in Windows but suddenly wanted to know if my network was home, office or public and the Windows Update Policy was reset. So I just shutdown the computer manually and connected the harddisk to my WAIK computer and used imagex to make the WIM image. I'm currently trying the image on a third computer with different hardware. Thanks!

No I didn't sysprep, I've seen some example on how to do this but I'll try it first using C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe like Windows XP. Or do you have a better way? I'll start testing this out right away and report back if I have any results.

Guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with my WIM images. My company would like to deploy a default image to computers we sell to customers though Windows Deployment Services. I've managed to make an WIM image in VMWare Workstation (imagex) (so it would be easy to make changes to the image using snapshots) and these work perfectly on other VMware Workstations however if I deploy the image on a physical computer it will deploy but gives an 0x000007b error once it boots up for the first time. This 0x000007b error will probably appear because the IDE or SATA controller is different from the computer from which I've created the image. If I make an image from a physical computer I can deploy the image with succes on the same computer but not an any other. I'm OS I'm trying to deploy is Windows 7 Home Premium X64. Can anybody tell me how to solve this problem. Thanks, r00ster