Aemetz

@mdes, jaclaz First of all, Merci and Grazie for your replies. I have understood the limitations in reassigning drive letters. I agree with Jaclaz that reassigning drive letters when running W2K will not have effect when installing WinXP. In the meantime, I continued my posting in the German nLite forum and got some replies there. I'm sitting in the office actually, so I do not have the time to explain in more details. I will do this later today or at the weekend. Basically, some nLite members recommended to integrate your (mdes) mapdrive.cmd file in the file hierachy of nLite. However, the recommended directories do not exist in my personal nLite custom installation for WinXP. This is the problem, I am actually struggling with. I may have to create them manually for unattended installation of the OS. I have to read carefully the appropriate nLite Guide for this particular action I want to perform. As I said, I may give some more details in the next days, as some members here may be interested in the method as well. So long Aemetz

I'm Aemetz (German dialect for an tiny animal, english "ant") and I am new to the board. I followed a recommendation from a member of the German nLite board. Your forum is somewhat of a melting pot of members of different nations - I appreciate that. I would finally like to apologize for my English in advance

Hi mdes, I'm struggling with drive letters assignment and raised my question in the German nLite forum. Another member was so kind to link to your thread here in the MSFN forum. I want to integrate your mapdrive-cmd. tool into my nLite Custom CD for Win XP. I have already W2K installed on a system partition of my first IDE harddisk which consists of three partitions now, e.g. 3 drive letters. I have also one raid-1 system (1 drive letter) two optical drives (2 drive letters) and a cardreader with four (virtual) drives installed (4 drive letters). I created an nLite-CD and installed WinXP in the third partition of the IDE-harddisk. However, WinXP assigns the drive letters not in series, but I want the order on the IDE-drive as follows: C: "W2K_SYSTEM", D: "DATA" and F: "WIN_XP". (E: is used for the RAID-drive). When the installation procedure was terminated, WinXP assigned J: to the "WIN_XP"-partition. I cannot rename the "WIN_XP" system partition, as WinXP refused to rename the system partition, of course. As you are experienced with this business, can you tell me whether your program is able to reassign system drives also after installation had been finished? I have to do this prior to install WinXP, e.g. integration of your program into the custom installation CD in unattended mode? Maybe other member can give me some help. Thanks so far Aemetz