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For anyone that's interested in a fix for this when using RIS, you simply need to copy of the files from the nLite working directory - for whatever reason, RIS doesn't copy the files when you add the image to the server.

I've tried burning the image to a CD to eliminate the RIS factor and am still getting the error - what am I doing wrong?

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All of my "clients" are currently virtual machines (VMWare Server), if it makes any difference (I know the BIOS that VMWare uses is a bit old, but it shouldn't matter).

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I've recently setup a RIS server and have been experimenting with it and nLite (the latest version, 1.4.1). In particular, creating unattended images. This has been hindered slightly by the fact that on all installations, I'm prompted during the setup phase about what to do regarding missing files. They are the following: sysbck.dll sysbck.inf nhelper.exe nlite.inf and, if I choose to have nLite display its OEM branding, I'm also prompted about the following files: oeminfo.ini oemlogo.bmp The following is my configuration (you can safely ignore most of the unattended information in there as RIS handles that): [Main] Env = 1.4.1 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.2.3790 Service Pack 1 Target = Windows XP Professional SP2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Remove Components Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # Games Internet Games Pinball Screensavers ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) Arabic (Yemen) Divehi (Maldives) Syriac (Syria) Urdu ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Central Europe Albanian Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Croatian Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Serbian (Latin) Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Slovak Slovenian ;Cyrillic Azeri (Cyrillic) Belarusian Bulgarian FYRO Macedonian Kazakh Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) Mongolian (Mongolia) Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) ;Georgian Georgian ;Greek Greek ;Hebrew Hebrew ;Indic Bengali (India) Gujarati (India) Hindi Kannada (India) Konkani Malayalam (India) Marathi Punjabi (India) Sanskrit Tamil Telugu (India) ;Japanese Japanese ;Korean Korean ;Simplified Chinese Chinese (PRC) Chinese (Singapore) ;Thai Farsi Thai ;Traditional Chinese Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) Chinese (Macau S.A.R.) Chinese (Taiwan) ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Vietnamese Vietnamese ;# Network # MSN Explorer Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # File and Settings Wizard Manual Install and Upgrade Search Assistant Tour ;# Directories # SUPPORT VALUEADD ;# Compatibility # [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe nhelper.exe nlite.inf oeminfo.ini oemlogo.bmp syssbck.dll syssbck.inf [RemoveFiles] clock.avi yahoo.bmp swtchbrd.bmp [Options] ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp AdvTweaks NoISOPreset [Patches] [Services2] [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure Boot and Shutdown-Status Messages-Extended Desktop-Show Windows version on Desktop Explorer-Add (un)register libraries in Context Menu Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu Explorer-Launch folder windows in a seperate process Start Menu-Reduce popup delay [Unattended] ComputerType = Default MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Default|| AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files" [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] [Hotfixes] I've tried a number of combinations, even disabling SFC (which I'd rather not do), to no effect. What can I do to avoid these missing files from "going missing"? I had also noticed that nLite images seem to confuse RIS slightly as they do not have an "ntldr" file created in the "[path to image]/i386/templates" when you associate the image to RIS, unlike any other Windows image I've used (fixing is simply as easy as copying the file from another source, but it's an extra step). Might this be related?