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Good catch on the paths. I am going to mod those entries and retry. That was done automatically in HFSLIP and I did not see the error. All of the file copied errors are happening in text mode. After text mode and the errors I get a BSOD (see earlier post). Never gets to GUI. UPDATE: I changed the paths to match what they should be (WINSETUP\XPpSP3\I386\SVCPACK) but this made no difference. Same files not found. HFSLIP.CMD

So here is my process... I am using Dell's base XP (SP0). I integrate all the patches and utilities from mim0's list here (http://freenet-homepage.de/MisterMoster/hfslip.htm). I run hfslipfc against that before compiling to verify that I have the most recent updates. I then run HFSLIP. I take that compiled SP3 build with all the updates and bring it over to Nlite to integrate drivers, cut out unnecessary components and the following T-13 packages: Kels_CPLBonus_v10.6_addon.rar Kels_Runtimes_addon_v6.rar T13XPDNF11SP120SP230SP235SP1.7z (This is a self compiled .NET/Runtime Libraries package created with SNMsynth http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=127790) WGA_Validation_AddOn_1.9.40.0-2_-_redxii.7z I then use the output from that for my WinSetupFromUSB. A few notes… HFSLIP has the ability to tweak the path variables in HFSLIP.CMD from the default values to: FOR %%i IN (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\WINSETUP\XPpSP3I386\SVCPACK ( SET HFSLIP=%%i:\WINSETUP\XPpSP3I386\ SET HFSLIPSVC=%%i:\WINSETUP\XPpSP3I386\SVCPACK\ It is documented in a few posts. But this does not fix the file copy issues. FWIW, if I just take the output of everything up to the part where Nlite has finished and produces an ISO and burn that to CD everything works w/o issue. It's only when I try to combine the three apps that I run into issues. Attached my txtsetup.sif and a full list of the missing files. Missing.rar TXTSETUP.rar

Good advice and I did just that over the last two days. Actually took the post over to HFSLIP forum since that seems like a better place to get the questions answered. The net of my experiments thus far seems to be that I am getting "File Not Found errors" in the initial process. Its 36 files right now. You can hit ESC through all of them but upon reboot to the GUI install portion I am getting c000021a (0xc000026c 0x00000000) errors so at this point it's unworkable. So now I need to work backwards to find why I am getting errors on 36 files. The reason for the post here was to save time and utilize what others may have already discovered about combining the two apps to make a USB boot install of XP. Looks like the errors I am seeing are common and right now there does not seem to be an easy fix to bridging the two apps. I like HFSLIP because you build the update process manually. You get an understanding of exactly what is going into that hotfix build because there is a clear folder structure. Most importantly, you don’t need anyone else to maintain that project. With mim0's patch list being updated continually you have a great sense of version control. With the "all in one XP hotfix projects" you don't have that and you are relying on others to maintain those throughout their life cycle. So when someone moves on to other things and stops maintaining that project you have to find someone else that is doing something similar. And you lose consistency because you put yourself at the mercy of whatever else that person decides to place in the package.

Thanks for the well thought out response. I’ll read those two threads later tonight. I did some tests tonight and as you predicted there were issues in the initial file copy phase. Probably about 25-30 “files not found” so I am assuming those have hard coded paths in .inf’s or requirements that would have to be manually edited to make this possible. As you stated HFSLIP was designed for CD/DVD platform and it works great for that purpose. It’s reliability and the fact that it runs very quickly and w/o intervention is one of the selling points for me. Plus mim0's updated list is unmatched and makes version control very easy. Nlite is great at what it does as well. I’ve gotten to the point where I want to migrate to USB for all installations so I was looking at an app to bridge that gap. WinSetupFromUSB seems to be furthest along and offers multi-OS USB installations which at this point is really attractive. So my question is, since I never had a need to tweak any of the .inf or file manifests, how do I correlate failed file copies to the corresponding .inf to check or validate why they are not being picked up upon setup? Is there a good starting point for this process? I validated that the files are indeed on the USB so I guess I need to work backwards to get to a place where I debug the errors. Thanks again.

Tommyp, I was looking to use WinSetupFromUSB with my build/update process (HFSLIP to Nlite to CD). Would like to go HFSLIP to Nlite to WinSetupFromUSB. WinSetupFromUSB uses <USB ROOT DRIVE>\Winsetup\XPpSP3\ as it's directory structure before it gets to the root of the XP install. What do I need to watch out for with hard coded path in the .inf files (if any) when using my \SOURCESS build?

Gotcha. Thanks.

Thanks. What script(s) (paths) should I be checking to validate this?

I have been using HFSLIP to integrate hot fixes and other tools in coordination with Nlite to lighten XP, install some T-13 apps and install device drivers. That has been going well for almost 3 years without any real issues. So now I am looking to use WinSetupFromUSB with GUI to get all of that on a bootable USB stick. Have read through the main thread and was not able to find the answer not was I able to locate anything in the HFSLIP thread that would address the following: Will I be able to take my HFSLIP/Nlite XP install and place it on USB using WinSetupFromUSB and make it seamlessly work or will I have to mod any of the .inf or .sif files for the application to work?

Looks like I fixed this error and it had nothing to do with the OS that it ran under. In the copy process from the old OS to Windows 7 somehow a folder was created named \HFSLIPFC.TMP under my main \HFSLIP structure. I have no idea now that got there but I do know that's suppose to be a file and not a folder so I deleted it and re-ran hfslipfc.cmd and it ran perfectly. Have a few updates to address. Attached the log file from that run. You can probably repeat the error I got by creating the \HFSLIPFC.TMP folder.

Yep, that's what it looks like I will end up doing.

Thanks. That was my guess as well but somehow I was able to run both apps on XP x64 without any issues and I assumed it would be OK to try on Windows 7/64. Looks like I need to carve out a partition for XP or look into the virtual XP that MS has released to run under Win 7.

Great utility and even better job of keeping the XP update log. Invaluable stuff. Question - just switched over to Windows 7 64bit for my "build/test" PC and moved all the entire \HFSLIP folder over as well as the HFSLIPFC CMD and ini. Went to do a check on the 3/31 changes and now getting strange errors. Tried the 3/25 (what I used below) and well as a prior version of HFSLIPFC and same errors. Ran the shell as Administrator and same errors. Here is what I see: ------------------------------------------ File-Checker (v.2010/03/25) for HFSLIP See following site for further details: people.freenet.de/MisterMoster/hfslip.htm ------------------------------------------ HFSLIPFC will report missing, obsolete and unknown updates for Windows XP SP3. Start this from your HFSLIP-folder. Service Pack included in SOURCE: SP0 Language: ENU (EN-US) Selected components: Internet Explorer = IE8 Windows Media Player = WMP11 Remote Desktop Client = RDC7 Installing MSXML4: yes Update-Sites: WU MU Folders to check: HF\*.*;HFGUIRUNONCE\*.*;HFCABS\*.*;HFSVCPACK_SW1\*.* Update-lists: hfslipfc.cmd;hfslipfc.ini List missing security advisories: yes List not found high-priority updates: yes List not found optional updates: yes List not found hotfixes: yes Write hints for specific updates: yes DirectX 9 already extracted in HFCABS: no Media Player 11 already extracted in HF\WMP11: no Create log-file: yes (1) ------------------------------------------ (:-) 2010 Mimo ------------------------------------------ Press any key to continue . . . C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\D400\hfslip\hfslipfc.tmp\*, Are you sure (Y/N)? I then get a string of Access Denied errors Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access is denied. Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP Found wrong, obsolete or unknown update(s) ------------------------------------------ unknown: HF\directx_feb2010_redist.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\IE8-WindowsXP-KB976662-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\IE8-WindowsXP-KB978207-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\IE8-WindowsXP-KB980302-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\KB961742-v3.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\msxml4-KB973685-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\msxml6-KB973686-enu-x86.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\rootsupd.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windows-kb890830-v3.5.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\Windows-KB909520-v1.000-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\Windows-KB943729-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb928788-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb929399-v2-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb929773-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb932390-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb933547-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb935551-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb935552-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb939209-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsMedia11-KB939683-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb944882-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb954069-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsMedia11-KB954154-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsmedia11-kb973442-x86-intl.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsMedia11-KB974905-x86-INTL.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsRightsManagementServicesSP2-KB979099- Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB905474-ENU-x86.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB923561-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB932716-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB941569-x86-ENU.EXE Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB944043-v3-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB950762-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB950974-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB951066-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB951376-v2-x86-ENU.EXE Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB951618-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB951830-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB951978-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB952004-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB952013-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB952287-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB952954-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB953155-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB954708-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB954920-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB955417-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB955704-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsxp-kb955759-x86-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB956572-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB956802-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB956844-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB957579-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB958644-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB958655-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB958869-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB959426-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB960680-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB960859-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB961118-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB961451-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB961501-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB967715-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB968389-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB969059-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsxp-kb969395-x86-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB969947-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsxp-kb970430-x86-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB970483-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB971029-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB971276-v3-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB971314-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB971468-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB971513-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB971657-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\windowsxp-kb971737-x86-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB972270-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973039-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973354-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973507-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973687-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973815-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973869-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB973904-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB974112-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB974318-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB974392-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB974571-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB974841-v2-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB975025-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB975254-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB975467-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB975560-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB975561-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB975713-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB977165-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB977377-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB977914-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB978037-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB978207-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB978251-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB978262-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB978706-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-KB979306-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB952069-v2-x86-ENU.e Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB954155-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB968816-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB973540-x86-ENU.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HF\wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFGUIRUNONCE\messenger.msi Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFGUIRUNONCE\UPHClean-Setup.msi Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\IEAWSDC.CAB Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\LegitCheckControl.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\MUAuth.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\MuCatalogWebControl.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\muweb_site.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\OGAControl.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\opuc4.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\SWFLASH.CAB Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\wbemoc.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFCABS\wuweb_site.cab Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFSVCPACK_SW1\IMAPI_XP_SRV2003_x86.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFSVCPACK_SW1\WindowsXP-KB969084-x86-enu.exe Access denied - HFSLIPFC.TMP unknown: HFSVCPACK_SW1\windowsxp-kb976002-v5-x86-enu.exe So not sure what is causing that. Never had an issue running this on XP x64. Any assistance appreciated. 1.txt

Well after trying several changes to the Winnt.sif file and reading the forum, it seems like I cannot do what I was looking for with the standard XP unattended process. I guess that is just the limitation of XP and the fact that the text part of the install is still tied to DOS. It does appear that using PE or BartPE the auto-partitioning can be accomplished with diskpart.

I am trying to put together an unattended XP SP3 install. The existing layout is: Where C is the install drive at 50GB Where D is the data drive at 175GB Where E contains a Ghost image file and some application install sources at 25GB Looking to do a unattended install on C: (unattended reformat of C partition with NTFS using all 50GB) Leaving D partition alone as it contains legacy user data. Cannot delete this partition Leaving E alone as it contains a Ghost image file and some application install sources. Cannot delete this partition Using these settings I can get everything completely installed with an NTFS format and no user interaction but the process takes the entire 250GB drive as the primary. Here are the settings: [Data] AutomaticUpdates="Yes" Autopartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall="Yes" [unattended] Repartition=Yes FileSystem=ConvertNTFS UnattendMode=FullUnattended UnattendSwitch="Yes" OemPreinstall="Yes" OemSkipEula="Yes" FileSystem=* WaitForReboot="No" NoWaitAfterTextMode=1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore Hibernation="No" What I need it to do is take the existing first partition (50GB) and format as NTFS leaving the other two partitions alone. Is there a setting in Winnt.sif that can facilitate that? Am I missing something?