Hi Tripredacus, Sorry, I seem to have worded my problem very poorly. I'm not trying to capture the XP install after textmode. I boot off my USB key into WinPE (Version 2 I think...Vista) and have startnet.cmd call a script I wrote which in turn calls diskpart, winnt32 with appropriate switches, copies over some other files, and reboots the machine. Here is the problem. When the machine reboots, if the key is left in, the machine tries to boot off of it instead of the hard disk. This is expected behavior, however I have not been able to figure out a way to configure bootmgr on the key to correctly call ntldr on the hard drive. Which is where I get that error. Not sure whats wrong in my bcd configuration, but it tries to find and boot ntldr and just fails. Now, once I remove the key after letting WinPE run, everything works just fine. The XP text mode setup runs and the OS gets installed, boots right up and runs just great. I just wanted to eliminate the need to stand around for 10 minutes waiting for WinPE to finish running just to yank the key so that the install continues. I hope my problem is a little bit clearer now and any advice is again very much appreciated.