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I also found the solution to the problem I was having after deploying the image to a new PC. We are keeping the DELL diagnostic partition on our workstations. When WDS captures the image and redeploys it the boot.ini is looking for windows in the wrong place. It is trying to boot and look for windows in the DELL diagnostic partition. Corrected this in the windows recovery console and now the system boots fine. I am going to try and correct this issue on the image by mounting the deploy.wim and modifying the boot.ini file. I will post to let you know how this works out. Thanks Ron

Here is a link to the site with the information on deploying XP through WDS on server 2008. http://www.midteq.co.uk/index.php?option=c...6&Itemid=68

OK So here is what has been done so far. I found a site that show'd me how to get this working. We used the AIK and extracted the boot.wim from server 2008 and replaced the WINPESH.INI file with one that matched the hal type of our image. then repacked that as a boot.wim and added it to WDS. Now when I boot to that I am able to see my XP image. The only issue is that after it expands the image on to the client and reboots I get an error about the configuration and not being able to access the hard drive. The next time I boot the system I will get the exact error. but that is as far as it will go. Any ideas? Ron

Since I am running Server 2008 with WDS in native mode is there an easy way to switch it to mixed to support my windows XP image? THanks Ron

I have used the winpe.wim to capture the XP Image to the WDS server using wdscapture.exe. is there a command line options for WDS with WINPE to deploy the XP image to the computers? Thanks Ron

We are testing server 2008 and windows deployment services in our environment. We built a WDS server 2008 box in a lab. created all the boot and captur images. Took a windows XP system that had been sysprep'd and captured the image to the WDS server as a WIM file. Once the capture was done we created the install image from the capture. Then we started the client and booted to the network. When we authenticate to the WDS server we are unable to see the Windows XP image that we captured. We just get a windows that say there are no images available. If I copy the Vista install.wim to the WDS server and set up the install image I am able to see it. I have looked around the net and found lots of information and tried them all but I still can't see the windows XP image. Thanks Ron