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First off, thank you very much for anyone taking the time to help me. My problem I imagine is a very simple one to resolve, though I am not quite up to date on editing the unattend.xml file to do what I need for deploying images. What I do is install vista and all applications needed on a system then sysprep to deploy to other computer with the exact same hardware, what I need is for the image to keep the hardware specific drivers installed. Don't need anything fancy in terms of keeping settings or anything like that. I need OOBE to run as well. here is what I tried already: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <OOBE> <HideEULAPage>false</HideEULAPage> <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation> <ProtectYourPC>2</ProtectYourPC> <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE> <SkipUserOOBE>false</SkipUserOOBE> </OOBE> <!-- Uncomment the following section to set display settings <Display> <ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth> <DPI>120</DPI> <HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution> <RefreshRate>60</RefreshRate> <VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution> </Display> --> <RegisteredOwner> </RegisteredOwner> <RegisteredOrganization> </RegisteredOrganization> <TimeZone>Central Standard Time</TimeZone> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale> <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale> <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage> <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale> </component> </settings> <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <ComputerName>Username-PC</ComputerName> <ProductKey> </ProductKey> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Identification> <JoinWorkgroup>WORKGROUP</JoinWorkgroup> </Identification> </component> </settings> <settings pass="generalize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SkipRearm>0</SkipRearm> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/vista/x64/image.wim#Windows Vista ULTIMATE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi"/> </unattend> this actually doesn't work at all for whatever reason, errors during windows setup saying it couldn't parse the unattend.xml file or something of that nature. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Yeah I did it with nLite'd CD, saw some other people having issues with same thing so I just did it all from scratch with an OEM CD. That took me around the problem, and from what I read I just need to make a new CD or what not. Thank you very much for the reply.

First off... Hello everyone I follow the steps of creating a sysprep.ini file, and copying everything to the %systemroot%/Sysprep directory, and enable mini-setup and click the reseal button. System shuts off, turns back on, starts the mini-setup process and stops and waits for me to insert the Windows Installation CD or to point it to the location that holds those files. Can anyone tell me what files it needs, or if there is something I'm forgetting to do. When deploying hundreds of systems I cannot afford to put a CD in each and every one of them. Not sure if it is related, but I used HSFLIP, nLite, and standard unattended installation methods to install the operating system on the original image. Please help! And thank you very much.