Just to let you know... I used this procedure about a year ago and it works great. The only problem i had was with the drivers for the various hard drives. This wasn't a problem for me as I don't have any SATA drives or raid setups for my desktops at work. The scripts jeremyotten wrote worked fine, it was just that sysprep would take days and give me countless errors before eventually crapping out (if I can remember correctly; it's been a while). What I did was follow his directions except for this step: "4. open de generated hwid.txt and copy paste all the entries under the [sysprepMassStorage] section in C:\sysprep\sysprep.inf" I just left that section blank. By adding: [sysprep] BuildMassStorageSection=yes to sysprep.inf, it'll prevent windows from crashing when restoring an image, provided that xp recognizes your hard drive. But, if you're trying to install to SATA, chances are you'll run into trouble. One last thing, you said you couldn't find most of jeremyotten's tools. All you need (besides the scripts he provided in the post you referenced) are the driverpacks, cmd line version of 7-zip, and the SP2 deployment tools. And of course imaging software. I prefer Snap Deploy, but have used Ghost as well for that. DriverPacks 7-Zip cmd line version Deployment Tools So give it a shot...it may take a while to get it working, but once it does you'll find it to be invaluable for deploying xp.