death_au

Interesting, but I'm already running at admin...

Actually, it is possible. Since whats happening right now isnt actually affecting any disks, have you tried just rebooting with the disk in (and hitting any button to start setup) and see if it does it there too? It seems strange that the image would be written incorrectly. If it does the same thing when you run setup on the real machine, try making the ISO with the mkisofs engine in nlite instead of the default one. Yeah, that was my first guess. I've tried the image and a physical CD on QEMU and Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and the CD on two actual computers. All say the same thing. I'm a bit busy again today, but when I get a chance i will try a different version of nLite. [EDIT] - I was using 1.3RC, I tried 1.21 - had the same problem.... I tried replacing the mkisofs version that came with nLite with another version - same problem... Maybe there's something that changes in the files when I copy them to the hard drive (even before I start nLite)... I really don't know. I'll keep looking for that original CD.

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Yup. Tried some different settings in nLite, too. Just about the only thing I haven't tried is setting up the nLite install to be as default: no hotfixes, no optional settings, none of that. But if I do that, what's the point of using nLite? [EDIT] I just tried using nLite on an unmodified copy of my CD contents and did nothing but make the ISO.... It's telling me to put the CD in drive A in QEMU

It boots, says press F6 to install third party SCSI or RAID driver, says press F2 to run Automated System Recovery (ASR) Then the dreaded insert CD into drive A I'm attaching all three screenshots. I assure you there is not even a flash of loading drivers or anything before I get this screen (screenshots were taken in QEMU 0.8.2)

I put them both in the same zip file.Thanks for looking at this for me. MoreFiles.zip

Here it is. There's a LOT of info in that one file, isn't there? I've had to zip it up so I could attach it. TXTSETUP.SIF.zip

Okay, I've attatched two images with the contents of the root of the CDs. I think everything appears to be in order. I also attached the WINNT.SIF for you to look at. The CD I have isn't from some manufacturer or anything, I think it's an official CD that's had SP2 slipstreamed into it. I did turn the house upside-down looking for my original CD to try that, but I've obviously put it "somewhere safe" and I can't find it In any case it should still work, shouldn't it? P.S. I apologise for taking so long to reply, this past week's been a bit hectic. The one on the right is the one with just SP2. WINNT.SIF

I recently created a Windows XP CD using nLite, slipstreaming in various addons and setting it up to be an unattended install. But whenever I try to boot from a CD created by nLite, I get the message: "Please insert the disk labeled Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD into drive A" The CD I'm using to get the setup files already has Service Pack 2 on it and everything. I've done some searching on the internet, and found that the problem is often caused by a missing WIN51IP.SP2 file (or win51ip.sp2 apparently capitals matter). On the CD I have, the file is there, spelled in lowercase. After applying nLite, the file becomes uppercase. I tried changing it back before making the ISO, but it didn't help. I've tried running the ISO in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and qemu, as well as burning the CD and trying it on my laptop. Still the same error. Does anyone have any ideas on what's wrong?