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SOLVED! It seems that he didn't like the -pnp parameter. Actually I am not quite sure why it works now without this parameter, but when I just use -reseal -mini it works fine! Thanks for all of you participating in my problem! bye Marcus.

Hi, First of all, thanks for your help! Unfortually I was not very successful yet. I removed the "sysprep -clean" command from my script, but it did not change anything on not having any mouse or keyboard after restoring the image. About the special drivers: I never installed the VMWare tools which is the VMWare equivalent of what you mentioned above. I left them out on purpose to make sure I am not running into these kind of driver problems... Any further ideas? Thanks in advance, bye Marcus.

Hi, Well, I didn't remove anything. What I did, I made a sysprep -clean before the reseal. What really confuses me ist the fact that standard keyboard and mouse devices are used. In the VMWare as well as on the Thinkpad. Usually no special drivers are needed - so I wonder why these drivers are not present when booting the mini setup.... Anyhow, how can I include them in the image? How are the drivers called and where would I find them (they are part of the standard Windows XP installation)? bye Marcus. This would mean that I need 3rd party drivers. But the Thinkpads Keyboard and mouse usually work with the standard PS/2 drivers that come with Windows XP. I am wondering why these drivers are not included in the image as they are also in use within VMWare where I created the master copy. I am also not sure how to add drivers that are actually part of Windows XP (no idea where they are located, I guess they are already somewhere in c:\windows\system32) bye Marcus.

Hi, To prepare my image I have set up a VMWare Workstation (4.5) virtual machine and installed Windows XP SP2 and some applications. I then syspreped (-reseal -mini -pnp) and ghosted this installation to an image. When I try to deploy the image to a IBM Thinkpad A20m, the mini-setup starts fine, but when the first window appears where I need to press the NEXT button, I figure out that I have neither mouse nor keyboard control :-( any ideas? bye Marcus.