daniel1908

I have an idea that may work. If you are running Server 2003 SP1, you will have the option to install RIS. During the RIS installation you will be asked for the media with the Operating System Setup Files. Insert your XP CD and allow RIS to copy the Files. Now upgrade your Server 2003 to SP2 and Install WDS. After Installing WDS, run it and it should find all RIS OS Installation files. These would be located in the Legacy Images Folder in WDS. If you right click the XP setup file in the Legacy Images folder, there should be an option to Convert to WIM. Use this to convert the XP image to WIM. Now you should have a hardware independent XP image. You can now copy the XP Wim image to keep as a backup copy. This is just an idea I had. I am yet to test it. If it works can someone please post here?