i don't use sysprep, I bought a ghost cd off of ebay for like 20 bucks and took the ghost32.exe file off of the disc(after installation). I made a WinPE image for RIS, edited the startnet.cmd file(its basically a batch file) to map a network drive to where i store my hard drive images and then with the ghost32.exe in the X drive(the image folder for winpe) i set that to open and then ghost can browse to the mapped drive and pull down or push up an image, because of the way ghost works and the way winpe is setup i have to unjoin the computer from the domain before i push up an image. and that's how i do imaging. I s'pose i could try sysprep again. thanks for replies. I got the system to remove itself form the domain using CLI but i can't join it, keep getting failed to complete successfully and missing RPC server errors.