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I ended up giving up on this. The HAL is different between the 530 and the rest of the machines I have. I will just configure and clone the 530 independently.

Uhm---- no. The sysprep ended up resetting the VM (which didn't do much, but was un-desired) and it tacked on another user through the forced user creation when the VM restarted and reset a bunch of stuff. I think, for now, I am going to go back to removing the IDE controller and writing the data us...

Thanks sej! So, I booted the VM and used sysprep /generalize - gonna see if that works after writing the image with Drive XML and writing it to a HD. 1. boot the vm 2. run sysprep with quit (not shutdown) 3. write the VM's HD to a remote location using Drive XML. 4. write the Drive XML data to a phy...

Looks like the Virtual Machine doesn't like ICH6 mode on the IDE controller, I get the same error as on the Inspiron, even when I removed the IDE Controller using Device Manager. I am going to try and setup the storage with SATA again, using AHCI. AHCI works on the Inspiron 530, when on RAID though!...

Then, of course, I will write the image with Drive XML with it properly configured to run in ICH6.

Note: I used RAID on the Inspiron when it booted.

I think I may have this fixed! What I did was plugged the HD into a computer I knew it would boot up in (it wouldn't boot in the Inspiron 530) and went to the device manager and removed the ATAPI Controller (Ultra ATA Storage Controller in the Gateway), rebooted, took the drive out, and it booted in...

P.S. I plug the HD into a Gateway and it boots up!

Tried that- didn't work. And, no, I cannot boot into Safe Mode. It crashes at classpnp.sys

Okay, here's the deal. Here I have setup a Virtual Machine that I customize and write the contents of it to a DriveXML image. From there I will copy the contents to a physical HD and plug it into a system. Basically I clone the VM to physical machines. But, I have been having a problem with one part...