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Another option could be that everything worked just fine and you have a video driver on the "new" machine that is coming up in a mode that is not able to be displayed. This is very common on flat panel monitors. I suggest before totally redoing your image, to try to boot the computer in safe mode and see if you can get in that way. Best of luck, Paul Donahue Information Technology Specialist CVM Information Technology Center A227 VMC, Michigan State University Phone: 353-5551 Fax: 432-2937 >>> David Benjamin <[log in to unmask]> 05/25/04 04:39PM >>> Andrew, Before you create your image of the suspect machine, you have to create a folder on the %systemdrive% named sysprep that includes your sysprep.exe and also contains a sysprep.inf file. Within the sysprep.inf file needs to be a OEMPnPDriversPath for ALL of your drivers for ALL of the machines you wish to deploy the image to. I've attached a link that you may find helpful. http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6200/rh6207.htm Sysprep.inf [Unattended] ExtendOemPartition OemPnPDriversPath <- this is the one path that directs sysprep to the drivers of all systems which you reference. OemSkipEula InstallFilesPath KeepPageFile ResetSourcePath UpdateHAL UpdateUPHAL UpdateInstalledDrivers TapiConfigured example= OemPnPDriversPath=C:\sysprep\oem\"drivers" What I've done in the past and works great is add ALL drivers for all HAL's to one folder and referenced that folder within the sysprep.inf folder. If you have further questions regarding this, feel free to call. http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6200/rh6207.htm ********************************************************** David Benjamin Help Desk Manager Computer Services Diagnostics Center for Population and Animal Health Michigan State University Suite 202 Lansing, MI 48910 517-355-4723 >>> "Mccormack, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]> 05/25/04 04:12PM >>> I decided to use sysprep/ghost to make an image of Windows XP. I did not remove any settings/hardware before I ran sysprep. 1. ran sysprep with -pnp and -reseal option. 2. System shutdown and I use my ghost boot disk 3. Created an image of the hard drive 4. I restarted the system, I ran sysprep on. I burned the ghost images to a 6 CDR disk. I also copied then to an USB external drive. I decided to test the ghost images on a similar but not identical machine. The hardware was slightly different, but had the same type of CPU. After I loaded the ghost images, the system rebooted. Now when I try to load XP, the system will not boot. (The screen is black and there is no response). I can not boot using safe mode either. The system will not boot into any mode of windows XP. I waited four hours for the computer to load XP. I tried using the recovery console commands fixboot and chkdsk. Nothing works. I can probably run a repair, but have not tried it. Do you have any idea of what could be causing the problem?