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Using this green machine method successfulle but one little annoying thing in my install is that my IE7 tweaks doesn't all work. I'll give them during t-12 with cmdlines.txt method. The couple ones that doesn't work are [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001 "RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001 When these ones doesn't work (for some reason) I have to go through settings when I first time open IE7 - however homepage and couple else tweaks works perfectly. But when I checked the registry (hkey_users/.default) also these two settings were there but when looking hkey_current_user they weren't there (before I have used IE7). I don't know anymore what to try - it's not big deal but annoying. Meanwhile - I tried hfslip method and this way all IE7 tweaks worked (during t-12). Differende with my hfslip install (comparing to green machine method) is that there was also wga, MU stuff within install. However - I'd like to use "green machine method" because then I know how it all goes... So if anyone has ideas, please let me know, MMainio

Well I'm sorry but one more answer...maybe you can LOL even more this time To Bashrat: I don't like argueing with you about that thing but your previous example way doesn't work in my system (and I didn't take any personalities). Next ones below are purely cold facts - all done with real system - not in virtual pc! Clean xp+sp2 -install + applied your latest basepack and massstorage pack works fine. And then only thing what I did was editing txtsetup.sif, making iso and burning and testing. Entries in txtsetup.sif after applying basepack and msd-pack - and works like a charm: So, according to your previous example the next one should work also: but it won't work. Error is: Setup can't find any hard disk blaa blaa... And not even the next one work - same error: .In order to work I need to have all entries like : mmainio

Bâshrat, one more reply... I tried your last pack + fix and it worked perfectly so case is closed I guess? But still wondering (if you have red my previuos post) would it make any harm to other promise users if tx4000 -entry are replaced by fasttx2k -entry in txtsetup.sif? Or maybe why-not-waste-any-more-time-with-this is better solution because your last pack worked okay even with me... Keep up good work mmainio

Well, I feel a little sorry for the troubles with my promise thing . And then I'm happy that I managed to solve my? problem and at the same time I feel like an id*** 'cause the answer was already there under my nose... Quotation from my txtsetup.sif I have used earlier with Raskren's method As you can see all entries are similar like in driver name (fasttx2k) and that was the only way I managed to get my system to work! Afterwards this seems so obvious... So only after long and ... tests I realised to change these entries in BTS driverpack's txtsetup.sif and that did the trick! The entries in BTS_DriverPacks_BASE_V50412 were originally and then I changed tx4000 into fasttx2k like below! Not that hard but like our math teacher used to say there's an easy way and there's a hard way... I don't know about the other promise users if they have had that kind of problem but at least my machine needed that change. Once again windows beat me badly... Sorry for troubles and thanks for your time and interest mmainio

Promise story continues... I don't know if this is of any use but it went like that: The beginning was that my satadrive didn't work with the driver from BTS Driverpack MassStorage_V5041 (folder D\M\P\2). But drivers names were the same - fasttx2k.sys - so I couldn't just add my driver. First I removed entries which belonged to BTS DP driver and replaced them with my driver entries (txtsetup.sif etc.) and and installation went fine. Then I just wanted to try to rename my driver and add it into BTS DP and test if that works and it worked perfectly. Couple lines below are quotations from my promise driver .inf and from BTS DP promise driver .inf. 1. changed my fasttx2k.inf, .sys and .cat into fasttx2p.inf, .sys, and .cat 2. in .inf-file changed all fasttx2k-entries into fasttx2p-entries 3. and in .inf-file I left only %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376-hwid line 4. and in BTS DP .inf-file I removed that hwid so there were no same hwids in .infs 5. cabbed my fasttx2p.sys into fasttx2p.sy_ --> and put that into i386-folder 6. added fasttx2p entries in dosnet.inf and textsetup.sif (same way than fasttx2k entries) and changed PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376= "tx4000" into PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376= "fasttx2p" and also SCSI.LOAD and SCSI entries 7. finally put my fasttx2p-files into folder 9 and added that to BTS DP (D\M\P\9\ - there were earlier 8 promise folders) and then 7z'ed that. So if you have conflicts maybe renaming can be one possibility? That was it! The explanation could have been more clear but my english knowledge sets some limits! mmainio Qoutation from BTS DP fasttx2k.inf ; [Promise] %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6629.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_TX4000, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6629 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3371.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_TX4000, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3371 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_TX4000, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_TX4000, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3373.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_TX4000, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3373 %Promise_Raid_ControllerDesc%=NODRV,SCSI\ProcessorPromise_RAID_Console____ ....more and from my fasttx2k.inf %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_S150TX4 , PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_376 , PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6629.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_TX4000 , PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6629 %PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3371.DeviceDesc% = FasttrakPCI_S150TX2 , PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3371 ....more

All right - no hurry! Thanks for your interest. By the way I used your driverpack method 2 to unpack my $oem$-stuff to the harddisk in my unattended installation and it went okay - that gives the possibility to use F6 to give sata-driver ('cause oempreinstall=no). Unbelievable that trying something new succeeded right away! One question, maybe not in right place but forgive me... Where did the if exist setup.exe ren setup.exe setupold.exe if exist setupORG.exe ren setupORG.exe setup.exe go? I mean I read the stuff couple times (almost 40 pages) from Pyrons method but in your driverpack's presetup.cmd there are no those lines? I guess I got lost somewhere when reading through the topic mmainio

Hi, I found this with everest - hope it's what you meant? Win XP Promise FastTrak 376 (tm) Controller PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376&SUBSYS_809E1043&REV_02 And the attachment below - it's an image from my windows device manager under promise controller - i guess it's the same thing but there are three more lines in addition to that one above... mmainio

Thanks for your reply. I got everest but it's bedtime now - I'll be back tomorrow, mmainio

Hello, EDITED mmainio: my problem is solved (read my posts 9 & 10) I have asus a7v8x mobo and promise (like in title) and under promise control I have two harddisk - one ide and one sata, no raid. I tried the latest BTS driverpack and setup couldn't find any hard drive - arrrgggh! I have used raskren methods earlier and it works fine with unattended method and also tried nlite - unattended and regular - but nlite always caused windows file protection prompts for some reason. So I'd like to have regular setup with sata drivers integrated - no unattended - and that's why this BTS driverpack sounds interesting. My promise driver is also fasttx2k.sys but different version. And in BTS driverpack is also driver with same name - should I replace all entries in txtsetup.sif etc with my driver entries or is there any workaround? Below is the copy from my promise driver .inf. Hope somebody can understand what-i-tried-to-explain, mmainio

Workaround for AdAware: -install the program -update definitions -change settings if you want (like language etc.) Then: -copy Lavasoft folder from Program Files\ -for settings copy Lavasoft folder from %userprofile%\Application Data\ -and if you want uninstall link into add/remove programs copy from registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ad-Aware SE Personal]. Finally just copy these into the right places in your unattended install, mmainio

Hi, I'd like to know how you can set Internet Explorer default Download Directory permanently? I know that putting "Download Directory" -value into the registry under hkcu..... but that value seems to change if I sometimes download into different directory. So can I set default download directory in a way that default is always the same no matter what I do? mmainio

Just the same thing i struggled with some time ago... Now i have two bootfolders and one setupfolder parallel with oem-folder. My workaround: I moved my runonceex, regtweaks and useraccounts batches into the folder (\$OEM$\$1\cmdlines) that are copied into the harddisk if it is unattended installation - if oempreinstall=yes in winnt.sif. Earlier i had these batches in my cmdlines.txt. And in cmdlines.txt i have now only start.cmd. It's a simple batch which checks if there are cmdlines-folder in the harddisk (unattended installation) or not (normal installation). And if there is that folder then this start.cmd executes runonceex, regtweaks and useraccounts batches and if not then start.cmd doesn't do anything, mmainio

If your batch works in windows then it should be okay! But one thing... you have users.bat and then again users.bat - should that last one be users.reg for example? And in cmdlines.txt respectively [COMMANDS] "users.bat" "users.reg" And one more thing... I think $OEM$ and i386 folders should be parallel - not i386\%OEM% mmainio

If I read this Ђ¤¬Ё­Ёбва в®ал thing right there seems to be one space... Maybe you should try this way: "Ђ¤¬Ё­Ёбва в®ал" Another possibility is that batch interpreter doesn't read your language characters in a right way. For example start menu in finnish is käynnistä-valikko and desktop is työpöytä. If i want that this works in batch i have to replace ä-character with ALT+0132 and ö-character with ALT+0147 like below (you can find these by trial/error -method): ä: k„ynnist„-valikko "double low-9 quotation mark" - ALT+0132 ö: ty”p”yt„ (työpöytä) "left double quotation mark" - ALT+0147 But you can find out this by writing your batch and putting pauses in there so you can see if your commands had been executed in a right way when batch pauses. Hope this helps, mmainio

Hello, I'm not sure if this the right forum to ask that but... I added /inram -switch into ERDC's txtsetup.sif (according to Flyakites multibootguide... If you would like to be able to switch cds while using ERD) and it worked fine. But I'd like to know: -what does ERDC do differently when loading normally or with that switch ? -and are there any disadvantages if i always use that switch concerning usage of ERDC? Thanks, mmainio