A while back I ran into some issues trying to boot a client PC through Acronis SnapDeploy: v3 boot disk wouldn't see HDD but saw NIC v4 boot disk would see HDD but not NIC v4 PXE was same as above Eventually I concluded that the driver for NIC on v3 boot disk was dodgy. Solution: Download Windows AIK 1.6 for XP/Vista Install on Acronis machine. Build PE boot for PXE and add drivers for the NIC Boot from PXE