Not to increase tension here, but I DO understand what you are saying. The WinPE envrionement is not related to the OS on the physical drive. the WinPE environment is on a CD. PowerQuest's new version of DriveImage Pro Version 7 does this.
"I would really like to do the same thing you're doing, but DOS ghost works well enough and I don't think it's worth the trouble to change everything around for us, maybe it is for you. "
While this comment is true, I would just like to have all of the utilities on one central disk. Where I don't have to reboot in order to create an image, or run CHKDSK, or something like that. As for the ISOLINUX you were referring to, what type of network support does it offer?
"As nothinman already said, ghost cant run inside PE anyways, it needs full access to the disk or the image wont be a 1:1 bit to bit copy"
I already know that Ghost cannot run within an PE evironment, that is why I'm asking the question. WinPE doesn't take full access of the logical/physical drive. It's completely isolated within the CD and a RAMDisk.
How did you create your ISOLINUX CD with the utilities on it? And, what utilities are on it?
[INSERT] To explain my lashing out before, I just hate it when someone asks a question, and then someone else comes into the discussion, and trys to offer something else that really *might* not apply to the question at hand. When you stated "why not use ISOLINUX for this", I thought you trying to bash my question. [/INSERT]