When attempting to capture an XP image using MDT2012U1 from a VMWare Workstation machine, I ran into an issue because WinPE could not see the Hard Drive when attempting the .WIM capture. After some searching, I found that adding the following setting to my Virtual Machine’s .VMX configuration file fixed the issue.
.encoding = "windows-1252" config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "9" scsi0.present = "TRUE" scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068" memsize = "4096" scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" scsi0:0.fileName = "BuildAndCapture-001-000003.vmdk"
Another useful setting is to force the VMWare machine to emulate an Intel E1000 adapter.
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:41:1A:54" ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
/Brian G