cup

Still confused. Copy them from what? My recovery disc? If so, already done - when I copied the whole disc to a folder on my HDD. Those files are there, in the root folder. If not from that disc, from my XP Pro disc, or from my MCE2k5 disc?. Or, is there somewhere other than the root folder that I should copy them to?

Um, beg pardon, but at the risk of sounding like an a**: I didn't copy just the i386 folder. I copied the whole fracking DVD. Are you saying that I should copy those files from my XP Pro disc? Or, maybe from my MCE2k5 (OEM) discs? 'Cause, the HP recovery disc does have: WIN51, WIN51IA, WIN51IA.SP1, and WIN51IC, all in the root of the recovery disc. And, begging pardon again, but that thread refers to add-ons, not starting the nLite-ing. :? Not sure why your WIN51 list differs from what I have here. This is MCE2k5 RU2, which, by definition, is XP SP2....

So I hear about nlite, think "this is great. Would work wonders for next reinstall on lappy" (WinXP MCE2k5, factory-installed on HP dv6105. Have only 'recovery discs' {shudders}, with all of HP's 'features.) So, I copy the contents of both discs (all 10GB worth :shock:) and fire up nlite. Browse to the folder that I copied the discs to. nlite tells me "make sure that the folder contains an i386 folder and Windows installation files." Won't go any farther. Thing is, there is an i386 folder there. I can see it. I can open it. :? Any ideas? Something I'm doing wrong? Or, can I not nlite a recovery-disc set? (oh, how I would like to get that 10GB recovery partition back, though; but without 'restoring' all the crap.) TIA for help, -Cup