Intel,Altiris Group

My scenario as follows:

I have a unique windows XP profile with installed programes and required settings installed on one Laptop (HP 530 for example),
i need to take an image from that laptop and deploy that image on another laptops with differnet hardware configuration (for example Dell, Toshiba,...etc)
i need to know the steps of taking an image from the windows profile without hardware drivers, then take an image from each laptop type drivers
then restore the windows profile attached with the suitable drivers image for each laptop
actually i need to deploy a special user profile with installed programes on all the laptops of my company, but i have about 5 differnet laptop types (Dell-HP, Toshiba, etc...)

There are many ways to accomplish this, and it really varies from person to person. The basic framework is laid out in this "stone tablet" version: Altiris KB21224.

An excellent updated example comes from this site's forerunner: Rebuild the XP images with SP3.

Also, with the latest versions of DS, the included Symantec "DeployAnywhere" technology does support a limited  - NIC and Storage Driver set.

Thanks a lot for your updates,
This example was helpful in customizing the base image taken, the problem in here comes on the next steps needed to deploy that image on different hardware.
Now we have the deployment server and a PC EVO800 for example and we need to deploy that image on Toshiba laptop.
What are the needed steps to deploy that image.

How to grab the main image drivers and how to grab the toshiba machine drivers and how to mix the base image drivers with the toshiba drivers and deploy them all on the Toshiba machine

When you use HII tools form Connect, you will have a sample job that can very easy be used to deploy the HII image to every computer. You will be wandering how easy it is.

We are getting the invalid parameter specified
We are running the HII job
on the create hardware independent image
on the prepare storage drivers job

REM Prepare Storage Drivers

REM Delete the old Temporary Storage Drivers if they exist
RD /S /Q .\Temp\HII\%ID%S

REM Create temp directories
MD .\Temp\HII\%ID%S\Drivers

REM Create OS Version file
echo.NT%PROCTYPE%.%#*"SELECT SUBSTRING(os, CHARINDEX('.', os) - 1, 3) FROM computer WHERE computer_id = %ID%"%>.\Temp\HII\%ID%S\Drivers\OS_Ver.txt
echo.%#*"SELECT 'SP' + SUBSTRING(os, CHARINDEX('Service Pack', os) + 13, 1) FROM computer WHERE computer_id = %ID% AND CHARINDEX('Service Pack', os) > 0"%>>.\Temp\HII\%ID%S\Drivers\OS_Ver.txt

REM Prepare Mass Storage Drivers
.\HII\DriverPrep.exe -src:.\HII\Drivers -dst:.\Temp\HII\%ID%S -ver:.\Temp\HII\%ID%S\Drivers\OS_Ver.txt -msd > .\HII\Logs\%ID%S.log

We are getting the following error
Invalid parameter specified

DriverPrep 3.2.0
This utility will read the specified PMQ File and copy files from the source Driver Library to the destination location

DriverPrep.exe -src:source -dst:destination -ver:osverfile { -pmq:pmqfile | -msd:msdpath }

source Root path (Relative or UNC) of the driver to copy
destination Root path (Relative or UNC) to sort the driver into
osverfile .VER file that contains OS Version information
pmqfile .PMQ file to use in order to determine which drivers to copy
msdpath Path (such as C:\Drivers) to use as the base driver location when creating the MSD.INF file


.\HII\DriverPrep.exe -src:.\HII\Drivers -dst:.\Temp\HII\%ID%S -ver:.\Temp\HII\%ID%S\Drivers\OS_Ver.txt -msd > .\HII\Logs\%ID%S.log

This error indicates that the PMQ file is not created.
Did you followed the manuals with the correct TA.EXE and TAP.EXE.

They will cause this error.

Please guide me which document should i refer to in order to get that file created.

is there any documented procedure for the HII tools installation and usage.