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Hello all, So I've managed to get my XP SP2 unattended to install without any errors replete with Office 2k3, all the critical patches, and all the drivers from DriverPack. My Mother used to always say, "if it's not one thing, it's the other" and it indeed appears to be that way. When XP did it's initial completion wizard (e.g. detecting network settings, choosing a name to log on with, register w/ MS, etc), the background music was present as was the audio when it automatically logged in as administrator (Windows XP Startup.wav). However, after Office 2k3 automatically installed, I noticed the audio was no longer present. At first I thought it was a drivers issue, but when I looked in the %systemroot%\media folder, all the of the sound files with the "Windows" prefix were renamed to shortcut names such as XPStartU, XPBalln, XPBattLow, XPCrt, etc., and thus, Windows was unable to find the sound file to associate with the event. Any idea how this happened or how it can be avoided? I'm sorry if this has been posted before, but I did a search for "%systemroot%\media" and yielded no results. Thanks in advance! -M

Thanks for the reply, IcemanND. I will try this. For some reason, the DriverPack created the OEM folder without the $ symbols. I did try putting the $ before and after "OEM" but then the DriverPack installation went awry. I'll mess around with the settings a bit more and see what happens.

Hey all...sorry if this has been covered before, but I did a search and it did not yield any results. Anyhow, I am attempting to create an unattended installation for XP SP2. Everything has been working perfectly fine, from the critical patches slipstream to the driver pack slipstreams (via DriverPack). It is when I tried including Office 2003 that I started having issues. The main issue is that the files are not being copied over to the C:\ drive. I followed the instructions and put everything into OEM\$1\install, but during the installation completion, it blows the error "Cannot find C:\install\install.cmd", where install.cmd is the batch file to launch the Office installation. I go into the C:\ drive and sure enough, nothing from $1 has been copied over. What am I missing? Your help is greatly appreciated. -M