I am trying to put a base image on a vmware machine. User the ISO boot image I've always used to image a physical PC, follow the setup direction online for vmware and was able to get to the point where I can select the task sequence, but as soon as it hits the first task sequence step that is "partitioning the HD" then it fails. So I went ahead and disable this task sequence, then it fails at the very next task sequence that is "applying OS image". What is wrong here?

Have you injected correct storage drivers into winpe? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680705.aspx and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694146.aspxKind regards Tim Nilimaa IT Consultant at Mindgrape (Sweden) Please remember to mark this answer as helpful if it helped you.

Yeah, I think that's it. I chose SCSI instead of IDE when building the virtual machine and my guess is because I don't have the correct storage drivers for SCSI injected to wimpe. I changed to IDE and it runs fine. do you know what SCSI storage driver is used for VMWARE?

Well Mr. Darklord12, It depends on alot of things: Version of VMware instance (1.0, 4.0 etc) Type of VMware instance (ESX, Workstation etc) Type of architecture of guest OS (x86 or x64) Version of guest OS (5.1, 6.0, 6.1) Kind regards Tim Nilimaa IT Consultant at Mindgrape (Sweden) Please remember to mark this answer as helpful if it helped you.

All the task sequences finished and no error reported in SCCM, but after this, the VMWare go into a rebooting cycle after briefly showing a blue screen the error code 0X0000007B for a couple seconds.

It seems to get past "applying driver package" task sequence, but then it enters a rebooting cycle with the blue screen error code 0x0000007B. It looks to me like a mass storage driver issue, but I am not sure if it is because I don't have the correct drivers in the driver package or because I don't have the correct driver in WinPE.

If its XP try and take a look at this post i wrote http://blog.coretech.dk/osdeploy/handling-hal-switching-during-xp-deployment-no-bsod-0x07-error/ Michaelhttp://kongkuba1.spaces.live.com

I copied the hal.wsf script to the MDT 2010 toolkit package - under script folder and run it before the windows setup task sequence but I still get the same error message.