you could use nlite to integrate the driver (you can't use any other media besides floppy drive, so integrating driver is your only option) what controller do you have?
wow VirtualBox is a LOT faster than VPC, it seems to work faster than my normally does during install (because of the hard drive being a lot faster than a dvd) anyone got any windows install test times between the 3 programs?
diskmgmt.msc is the program extract and copy that from your xp disc to system32 folder, try running it, it might tell you if it needs other files to run
another option is to put 'contig.exe' in your s32 folder, and use power defragmenter http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-D...ragmenter.shtml contig is made by sysinternals
is this what causes some office 2003 updates on windows update to say.. "the following updates were not installed" i've only just noticed the text tip that says its needed for the updates if so, then can you put that text in red!