Navigate to C:\sysprep on the reference machine. Execute sysprep.exe . Configure it with the following settings to ensure a clean deployment:
The way XP handles Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL) during setup differs from modern Windows. windows xp wim
If your reference machine was configured with a Single-Processor HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and you deploy it to a Multi-Processor ACPI machine, it may fail to boot. Always use an ACPI Multiprocessor PC configuration as your reference machine base. Navigate to C:\sysprep on the reference machine
using imagex or dism :
Now that the reference machine is shut down and generalized, you need to boot into a modern Windows PE environment to capture the partition into a WIM file. Booting into WinPE windows xp wim