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Yes. I tried to copy Windows XP SP2 from Vista down to our file server in Iowa and explorer.exe would just lock up. Could copy SP2 down via Windows XP just file. Also, there is some weird stuff going on with Internet Explorer. On my machine and my co-workers, IE defaults its downloads to a directory I do not have access to. If I ask for access, it says "OK, I'll give you access" and then comes back with access denied. This is to my own documents folder! If I pick C:\temp, it works. I'm an administrator too. Weird stuff. Adam

Same exact issue here! I started to work at this company 4 weeks ago and I see they have spanned images in the past. They are using a PC-DOS bootdisk and I am using a MS-DOS based boot disk. I'm going to try a PC-DOS based bootdisk (7.1) and post back with my results.

Are you doing this during the sysprep? Create a Cmdlines.txt file with the following lines at the top of the file: [Commands] "C:\Sysprep\Sysprep -clean" as the first item in the file to disable all of the mass storage controllers that were not installed because they were not present on the destination computer. If this line is not added to Cmdlines.txt, the start-up process for the destination computers may be slowed down while the computers attempt to load each controller driver with each reboot. Place the Cmdlines.txt file in an $OEM$ folder in the location specified in the Sysprep.inf file by the InstallFilesPath parameter. For example, if: InstallFilesPath = "C:\sysprep" you would then copy the Cmdlines.txt file into the C:\sysprep\$OEM$ folder (Note: to make sure cmdlines.txt is executing make a file called test.cmd and put it in the $OEM$ folder. Then put “dir > C:\testme.txt” in the test.cmd file. Add “test.cmd” under the [Commands] section. If you see that testme.txt was created after the sysprep mini-setup cmdlines.txt is working as expected. You can then remove it from the script.)

Wow, your MassStorage section is quite large...does it need to be that large? Any ways, do a file search on your image and pick "Search text within files". Then input "c_20127.nls" and hit search. If it finds this statement in C:\windows\inf\oemX.inf, where X is some random number, then that is probably your problem. In fact, if it finds any results in any INF file in C:\windows\inf, purge that INF from that directory and try it again.

I have to force the HAL from "ACPI Uniprocessor" HAL to "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC" HAL during the sysprep so the image works on an older model PC. This older HAL seems to work fine on all equipment. Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

Here's a simple way of determining what hardware you are on if you are trying to make a universal image for laptops and PCs. I make the assumption that if a modem is found that it is a laptop: @echo off C:\install\temp\pci32 > C:\install\temp\dev.txt C:\winnt\system32\find /i "modem" C:\install\temp\dev.txt >NUL if errorlevel 1 echo "Not a laptop, do nothing" if not errorlevel 1 "C:\install\temp\profcopy.cmd" Here's a copy of profcopy.cmd that copies over a Default User Profile with the number lock disabled in the profile and forces the video resolution to 1024x768: C:\winnt\system32\xcopy C:\install\temp\laptop\profiles "C:\documents and settings" /o /f /e /y /h /r C:\winnt\regedit /s "C:\install\temp\numlockd.reg" C:\install\temp\setres.exe 1024 768 32 75 PCI32 (Win32 console program) here: http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm setres: http://www.iansharpe.com/downloads.php