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Not sure about Ghost but I use Acronis True Image Home with my Vista X64 installation - details here http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ It has the facility to make a bootable CD that allows one to boot the Acronis program from outside of the OS which loads a GUI of the program. The program does not need to be installed on the actual machine itself (although this give you the more options) Rather nicely it also loads sufficient drivers from the boot CD to allow you to back up (or restore) an image from a USB connected hard drive, a DVD or even across a network. Very slick program and the icing on the cake is that you can dowload a free trial of the program for 15 days from the above site (~137MB). Highly recommended. Regards Alan

Have tried all the obvious things and a few more not so obvious, all without success Found these couple of threads that may be of interest to others walking a similar path. Tried this http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeSer...6&SiteID=50 not sure if things have changed since (eg final media release issued) but I could not get this to work despite multiple tries and meticously following the instructions The setup routine for WHS is remarkably similar to Vista. In particular it is possible to (hooray) point the installer at a CD for those pesky F5 drivers of old (no more floppy disks). Microsoft link here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939424/en-us However this only works if the installer then copies the drivers to the correct location. Irritatingly it all seems to be going swimmingly well until the next reboot when it blue screens again complaining about missing hardware (ie hard disk) See here http://brendon.davis.to/2007/12/17/whs-rtm...a-driver-issue/ for one users experience and workaround. Unfortunately in my case it did not come up with an error message to hint as to from where the files were missing - merely blue screened again. I've given up in disgust for the present (Microsoft do not recommend a RAID setup for WHS anyway) but it would have been nice to have the security of a hardware RAID 1 for the base OS system files. Regards A

Thanks for the suggestions - I've found my DVD - RW cache. I think you are correct in saying WHS is not currently supported by nLite. Have done some further digging around and having found this thread on another site it would appear that I am not the only person having fun. http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeSer...6&SiteID=50 So far I have NOT been succesful using the posters suggested method but will continue to explore. I really want to enable the RAID functionality of my board as whilst WHS seems very good at backing up other PC's solutions for backing up itself seem somewhat lacking. Regards A

Have recently taken delivery of an OEM copy of Windows Home Server (WHS). Unfortunately it does not contain built in the necessary drivers for my HP Proliant ML110 G4 "baby" server meaning that I am unable to utilise the built in SATA/RAID functionality as the installation DVD does not identify any hard disks during the setup process and this motherboard does not have a floppy connector, nor do I wish to spend £60 on a HP USB floppy drive. Previously I have used nLite to overcome this type of issue and slipstreamed the necessary drivers (Adaptec SATA driver for Windows XP/2003) into the installation. No problem I thought just do the same again ... however it did not work out as I had anticipated. Whilst I have successfully created a new installation disk containing the necessary drivers, nLite has only created a base Windows 2003 Small Business Server (upon which WHS is based) installation of approx 500mb and does not include the additional files utilised by the WHS environment (OEM installation DVD is approx 1.1Gb in size). Additionally the installation it runs is the traditional blue coloured dos based installation of the normal 2003 rather than the GUI based (presumably running on top) WHS. The end result is that it does allow me to install the OS on the hardware having recognised my SATA drives but I only have a bare Small Business Server installation ie it is not the intended WHS server installation. I am investigating using txtsetup.sif and winnt.sif along with $OEM$ files etc so far without success (and have used approximately 25 blank DVD so far!) I'm a bit lost as to where to go from here and becoming impatient - has anyone managed to succesfully slipstream a OEM WHS installation disk using nLite or am I the first to try? All suggestion welcome Regards Alan