Jacqui

Hi, this is only my 2nd post on the forum but I found this thread after having the same problem just now with the error message about not being able to find pinball.inf. This thread solved my problem. I created an XP SP1 CD with pinball removed. However I don't know how I also managed to removed some services: Automatic Updates and COM + Event System being 2 of them. Also, the "Dependencies" tag was missing from Services. I couldn't understand why this had happened- the only customizations I made to my CD were: adding and removing some Search Assistants, adding some fonts and wav sounds, and installing Esheep to system32 I went to install IIS and Networking Components just now using add/remove Windows components. The missing services have come back and so has the Dependencies tab. But I've just downloaded the file from here because of the Automatic Updates error.

Hi everyone I've just joined the forum. I have an AMILO Pro laptop with an OEM (Fujitsu Siemens) XP Pro installation. I have tried to create an unattended installation disk, although there is a text document on the disk saying that it isn't suitable for an unattended install. I made one disk following the instructions on the MSFN website, and when I booted from it, got an error message: "...cannot copy the files". When I copied the contents of the disk to my hard drive and tried to install from there, what I ended up with was a Windows install which looked like Windows 2003 server, i.e. with 'Administrator' instead of my name, and many of the services disabled, e.g. Themes, and also no internet access. Also, during the installation I got the error "the file icfgnt.dll cannot be copied" or "cannot be loaded". My laptop was preinstalled with this version and came with 2 disks: XP Pro Fujitsu Siemens, and a drivers disk. I then attempted to make a bootable XP disk by copying from the Fujitsu one and adding some of my customisations to it: programs and windows updates. When I went to install from this by booting from it, I got the same error about "cannot copy the files". When I started up this disk from Windows instead, I got the options of "New Installation" and "Upgrade (recommended)". With Upgrade, I got another error "Cannot continue with the setup wizard". With New Installation, I got the Administrator version of XP Pro again, with no internet access. Last night I copied all the files from the OEM disk onto the hard drive again, added my customisations and re-installed XP from this folder on the hard drive, with the option to upgrade. This worked and I have a normal XP install now, but I still don't know why I can't make an unattended installation from the Fuji disk.