lol no it's ok i borrowed my friends DVD, ripped it to my HDD. So i can mess the image up as many times as i like. I've already slipstreamed SP1 and stripped out about 1.4GB of bloatware on the install. and got it to boot/install unattended on my virtual PC. it's just the installing of 3rd party software and some more advanced tweaks i needed help with but XML files seem to be the answer.
btw my current windows file, which came preloaded from OEM is 12GB, the stripped down version is 4GB. I can't wait to get to grips with the answer files and really see what can be achieved!
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