Hello, I am trying to recapture my legacy .gho images as.wim. For the machines I had available I was able to apply .gho - update - sysprep - capture via wds to network & usb hd with success. However on the unavailable machines I set up an IDE VM using Workstation 7, applied the .gho rebooted then recaptured using wds but only saving to USB HD. As a result of this I created a 16 image wim file. When I apply the images which I taken from the physical machines it works fine, however when I apply the images I recaptured from the VM, upon boot I get the following error message: Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information. Upon further investigation I realised that the local C drive does not contain boot.ini, ntdetect.com or ntldr I have a feeling that its probably something to do with the manufacturers diagnostic partitions which have been captured along the way! Is there something 'schoolboy' I have missed out here? Any help would be appreciated, before I embark on another mammoth task next week! thanks A