For a deep dive into the manual "old school" way of doing this without MDT, the Windows XP and WIM images
: XP relies on NTLDR and boot.ini . After applying the WIM, you may need to use the bootcfg /rebuild command from an XP Recovery Console to ensure the system recognizes the new partition as bootable. Recommended Tools windows xp wim
Run sysprep.exe with the generalize and shutdown options. This removes machine-specific identifiers (SID, computer name, driver cache). For a deep dive into the manual "old
However, you capture an existing Windows XP installation into a .wim file using newer tools, but there are significant caveats. driver cache). However