Thanks for the quick reply! Regarding the drivers... I read about the 2 different methods but was a bit confused as to how that all fits into the boot cd creation procedure. Is it possible for me to embed a couple different nic drivers right to the boot disk that I could then load using the drvload method? I just wasn't sure how to go about adding them to the cd. If I had to guess at the procedure... I'd try this: imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim 1 c:\winpe_x86\mount xcopy "C:\drivers\net\broadcom100" c:\winpe_x86\mount\drivers\net\broadcom100 xcopy ...etc... with another nic driver Then after you boot off the disk run this: Drvload c:\winpe_x86\mount\drivers\net\broadcom100, any other drivers that are needed, etc, etc. Am I on the right track? Obviously before I can make an assessment of if this will be the correct tool for me to use, I'd like to connect up to a host machine and save and image, additionally, I'd like to download that image to a machine as well... to be sure that I can make it all work with our hardware. It's unfortunate that I can't slipstream the updates in the load... Yes it is XP for the time being but Windows 7 will be coming down the road at some point, once they figure out a few issues with our Oracle system. I can potentially utilize one of our programmer's time to make a script for me every so often to kick off all the updates. We don't have WSUS and our SMS server is sometimes slow to react for the update push.