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Thank you, thank you, thank you! Saved days of searching and missing the obvious. A typo! To be honest, I think I spotted it when I was typing out my original e-mail but wasn't sure if (what I thought was a missing e, rather than loads of extra e's) was really a typo, or correct. I take it this extra driver will not effect the other 4 images from loading when needed? Cheers

Hi, We are a large secondary school with various models of desktop and laptop computers which we image with the software we require to make set-up/repairs as quick and easy as possible. Until recently we have been using Norton's Ghost to image the computers. We recently cam across a problem with Ghost and some SATA controllers, especially on a recent batch of HP desktops, so we are in the process of switching to use RIS. We have successfully set up a RIS server with a base xp image and 4 specific pc images. The problem we are having is with our latest batch of HP notebooks (NX6310). They use Broadcom 440 NIC's which we have successfully integrated into the RIS image, and an Intel SATA controller, which we haven't. When setting up Win-XP we need to press F6 to install 3rd party storage drivers else Windows cannot see the hard drive. Having searched the net extensively I have found details and made the following changes to the RIS set-up: 1) Added *ALL* files from the manufactures mass storage driver floppy to the following directorys: D:\RIS\Setup\English\Images\NX6310\$oem$\$1\Drivers\hdd D:\RIS\Setup\English\Images\NX6310\i386 D:\RIS\Setup\English\Images\WinXP\$oem$\$1\Drivers\hdd D:\RIS\Setup\English\Images\WinXP\i386 2) Edited D:\RIS\Setup\English\Images\NX6310\i386\Templates\ripref.sif [unattended] OemPnpDriversPath = "Drivers\nic;Drivers\hdd" 3) Editied D:\RIS\Setup\English\Images\WinXP\i386\txtsetup.sif [sCSI] iaAHCI_ICH7M = "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)" [sCSI.Load] iaStore_ICH7M = iastore.sys,4 [HardwareIdsDatabase] "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106" = "iaStor" [sourceDisksFiles] iaStore.sys = 1,,,,,,_x,4,1 After making the above changes I restarted the binlsvc service. Now when I try to remote install the NX6310 laptop I get the following mesage: "File iastore.sys caused an unexpected error (21) at line 3540 in d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup'setup.c." As anybody come across this error before and knows the solution? The only references I can find involve removing the above iastore entry's as unwanted files, but in this case they are needed for Windows to see the hard drive. Have I entered something in wrong or missed an entry? If I get this working how will our other four images react to the changes in txtsetup.sif? Will they still work? I have a copy of the original txtsetup.sif file if it's needed. Is there another/better way of loading the txtmode driver for this image? Thanks in advance for any help, we are pulling our hair out here!