Will Anderson

Alrighty! I managed to make the image bootable thanks to you both! Unfortunately it bluescreened right off the bat, but I think that's a matter of not sysprepping the image and trying to place it on another machine. So I'll go ahead and try that out. Now obviously, there's a lot to do in order to prep the drive for imaging, and then applying it to another drive. Can I just add an autoexec.bat to perform the diskpart, imagex and the bootsect to my ISO and have it run? Or do i need to modify something to do that? I'm slowly but surely starting to understand this.

Alrighty...I've been able to create an image using a lot of the input from the crew on this site. I've been taking the steps to manually format the disk and assign a drive letter and what not...plus actually applying the image so i get a better understanding of how things work. Here's the question: When I capture an image from the OS...do I need to use the /boot switch so it know that when the image is applied, the partition will be bootable? The problem I'm having is that I applied the image successfully...but I get a black screen on reboot. I just hangs. Any ideas? Forgive me for all the beginner questions.

Thanks for the assist zorphnog. Basically I was just wondering if I could take an image in imagex and decompile it like ghost where you can drop in additional files and what not and recompile it...but yeah...I could make those changes too... Thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm having a few issues with getting my image to load to a second laptop right now, but it appears to be a disk formatting issue. If I keep having issues I'll post here again. This place has tons of info. I'm glad I signed up!

Hey guys, I'm investigating new options for imaging since Ghost 2003 is no longer reliable in this new SATA world. I'm doing some work with ImageX right now and reviewing WinPE and the WAIK tools. I was wondering if you guys might be able to answer some questions. I'm able to image a system drive with ImageX (easier than it looked!) and now I have my .wim file. I was wondering the following: 1) Can you use WinPE or the WAIK to basically decompile a .wim image from a machine to capture all of the system settings that you have done? For our global image, a lot of registry string and default configs are made, and although i know they can be done manually in the different text files, being able to decompile a preconfig'd image would be nice. 2) Can you remove the HAL configuration for Single and Multi Processor PC's so the image can be universal? 3) Is there a Microsoft Press Book available for ImageX, WinPE and WAIK? I'm sure there's a For Dummies book out there...but it would stick out in my current library...and you look less of a supergenius with a Dummies book by your side. Thanks for your answers! I'm very enthusiastic about WinPE, I just need to get the gears rollin. Best Regards,