I'll be thankful to you , can somebody clarifies me the below doubts

1. I want to create the WinPE image out of Windows 2003 CD , the concern is the Image should supports multiprocessor platforms( should have the multiprocessor HAL ) , can somebdy help me doing this.

2 . Since WinPE image is created from the source Windows 2003 CD , so does the patform on which the image is created matters? i mean if i create the WinPE image from a multiprocessor system so will i get the WinPE image which will have the multiprocessor HAL and kernal.

Thanks and Regards

Neer

Use a 32 bit windows version. That will run on a 64 bit intel based processor without any problem. It wil see the processors without any problem. (unless you got 4 of ehm, use enterprise version if you must).

Why would you want support for all the processors if you only need 1? I cant imagine you need that amount of processing power in e PE environment tbh.

my concern is creating a Winpe Multiprocessor image ,not 64 bit image

is there any flag in winPe build tools , which allows to decide the number of processors on target machine,

the actual problem i am facing is , i am not able to find the 2nd processor's information from SMBIOS tables (using WMI) with booting from WinPE CD , but the same can be fetched from Win2003 OS ,

thats why suspected that might be the WInPE image is a uniprocessor image , i tried replacing the HAL and kernal files in the windows PE disk. and it worked fine , but i wanted a proper solution for achiving the result,

can you tell me , is there any way of doing this?