don't know where else to post this so picked this location. appologies if it's a wrong one. I'm using Windows PE 2005 CD along with Windows server 2003with SP1 CDto create a boot CD. I am trying to use this CD to boot a Dell PE 2950 in PE and then create an image of it. Every time I create a boot CD (and I've created it successfully many times for desktops) and use it on a server it boots in WinXP rather than Win2K3. Does anyone have an explanation for this? I have tried it many times and went through all the steps very carefully to make sure I'm not having WinXP data somewhere. The other problem I'm having is that when I boot the server in WinXP using this Win PE CD I cannot see the HDD. I'm guessing it's because it can't load raid drivers. Or because those drivers are for Win2K3 and not for WinXP. However, I have confirmed that all raid drivers are on the boot CD. Same with NIC drivers. they're on the boot CD and I got them directly from the server itself. So i'm guessing they should work. I even downloaded raid and nic drivers from Dell website. Still the same result, I cannot see the mass storage or use nic. I tried specifying additional mass storage by pressing F6 but every time I try to specify it, it asks for disk to be inserted into drive A. Unfortunately, I haven't got a floppy drive on this server. Any help would be appreciated. cheers ryan

If you happen to check back, this forum is for Windows Server 2008 posts. You might have better luck posting to the Windows Server 2003 newsgroup to get a response. Best of luck. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/serveros/win2003.mspx