@rogerbrowntdl yes a smaller mother image would be best. 1.5.9 can grow the golden image to the size of the disk but not shrink it. Or just removed the recovery partition from the golden image. If you have an imaging solution in place is the recovery partition even useful?
I started with fog the shrink option really worked so I would create my golden image on a 70 or 80GB hard drive then expand it post deployment in windows. I also developed our golden images on a VM because I could snapshot the vm before critical steps. That kept me from having to rebuild the entire image again if I botched something. Stuff happens you know.
