mosaddique

That is a well deserved big thank you to which I will add mine. You deserve it with your sterling efforts.

Is your motherboard and BIOS capable of supporting 48 Bit LBA? If not you will not be able to have partition sizes greater than 137 GB. So long as the motherboard & BIOS support 48 Bit LBA and you are running either windows 2k SP3 or later or Windows XP SP1 or later, you should not see this problem. Hope it helps.

Thank you for quick response tommyp. I did check there first. however, one it does not mention anything specific about activation files in. Secondly it said "New entries are created in TXTSETUP.SIF and DOSNET.INF so only use this for NEW binaries." This confused me as the files are not new binaries. I will try it and see if it works at some point in time when the PC is free.

One of my systems requires activation upon re-install. 1. Can I save my Wpa.* files and HFSLIP them? 2. In which HFSLIP directory should I put the Wpa.* files? 3. Would this maintain my activation status? 4. If the answer to the above is no then, can I still manually copy my Wpa.* files into the System32 folder?

Kiki Burgh and super-magician thank you for your quick replies. super-magician your succint and to the point reply was what I was hoping to to see. I am impressed with your quick responses.

Hello everyone, I am a newbie to this forum and to HFSLIP so apolgies in advance if these questions have been asked and answered already. When the HFSLIP folder is created and the files from hfslip extracted to it, the hfslip-1.4.2.cmd is executed to create the required directory structure. Can you use this empty directory structure as a template? Does this step have to be repeated or can you just clear out the directory contents to start afresh? Do you need to clear out the directory contents if you are just reruning HFSLIP after rectifying an error (e.g. a missed fix file) ? New patches are issued by Microsoft after one has created an HFSLIP CD. Can I simply retain my earlier directory structure and add/remove fixes from the various folders and reuse it? Can I reuse it later to add some silent, switchless installers? In our familiy we have a number of PCs and Laptops which have XP HOME DELL OEM, XP HOME Retail (Upgrade really), XP Pro DELL OEM and XP PRO Retail. I was thinking of using the same directory structure and just replacing the contents of the SOURCE directory each time. Is that feasible?

Hello everyone, I have just discovered HFSLIP and this forum. I have created my fist hfslip CD and I am delighted with it. Thanks to all those who made it happen. I look forward to learning from this forum and maybe contribute to it.