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Thanks again. I don't think it is my hard drive. As I said, I seem to have the same problem on several different computers, mostly noticeable when I am installing software. I have run several hard drive tests (SeaTools, etc.) and they come back clean. I have run MemTest86 on my Memory. My current configuration is Raid 1, w/ 2 WD 750 SATA 2.0 HDs on a EVGA 680i SLI mobo, Intel Q6600, 2.4 GHz Proc, Kingston DDR2 1200 running at 800, (I thought I was purchasing SLI Ready memory) dual EVGA Gforce 8800s, Dual LG SATA 2.0 DVD-RWs, all brand new. I finally built the computer I wanted!! I have the same problem on my 160 GB Hitachi HD on the Dell XPS. Checkdisk says there were errors but it does not say there are bad sectors. I think it involved security descriptors. I'll try to make note the next time.

Hey Tomcat, Funny that you said suggested that. This is exactly why I am trying to do an updated Installation Disk, actually for about three different PCs in my Home/Office, all with different OS's, Windows, Home, XP & MCE. All of my installations are corrupted or damaged. I want to do them all over from scratch. I made a new 50 Gb boot partition on my new PC, (I just built it) installed with my original MS Windows XP Pro SP2-C OEM disk, just to do this Updated HFSLIP installation disk. I plan on running nLite on the Sourcess files so I can tweak my install but I get hard drive errors every time I turn around and, as I have said above, I can not get a working HFSLIP integrated installation disk. I want this one computer right before I try to fix the other two. (They are all usable, just not right.) The only boot partition that does not have corruption or damaged installation files is my "Games" boot partition, which is great if I wanted to play games (Unreal Tourn, Doom, Quake) all day but I have work to do. I have repeated Disk Errors on all of my system partitions on all of my PC's. I can do a low level HD format, a clean install and by the time I get a few courses of updates form Microsoft or a few programs installed, I have stuff going haywire. I Defrag like mad. I run CHKDSK, and more often than not, CHKDSK /r before I install anything anymore. I have used System Mechanic & CCleaner to fix registry errors and remove junk. I disconnect from the internet before installing most programs. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I am not a expert, I'd love to learn a lot more, but I thought I knew what I was doing. I have deleted and re-installed my "Projects" boot partition a number of times to do this integration and they have all failed with the same error. Just wanted to vent. TNX

Hey guys, Thanks for the help. I am slammed at work right now so it might take me a couple of days to try to troubleshoot this. I will definitely let you know how it goes. Let me ask, I, of course, want to fix the problem, but I also like to know the cause. Why would I get this kind of problem? It worked fine more than once before even with addons that did not install correctly. I followed the instructions page for page, letter for letter. I have also noticed that I can run HFSLIP without changing anything and get iso files of different sizes!? Weird, huh?

I am using HFSLIP to make a simple updated installation disk following to the "T" the instructions and including Tomcat76'S Windows XP Sp2 dynamic hotfix list. I have not removed anything and I have not included anything other that recommended; Microsoft Hotfixes and Updates, Dontnet1.1 & Java switchless installers from Ryan's site. this is the error I get when I try to install the created CD: The following value in the .SIF file used by Setup is Corrupted or missing Value 0 on the line in Section [sourceDiskFiles] Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup press F3 Attaching TXTSETUP.SIF and HFSLIP.LOG. This worked fine in an early run but I wanted to remove some program addons that were not installing. Now I can not get it to work. I have re-done this from scratch, checked all my Hash checksums, re-checked everything many times and burned up about 10 CDs. I am a newbee but this shouldn't be that complicated. It has to be something simple I am overlooking?! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Do have some DVD-RW's, Thanks. Attach.7z

Thanks!! So simple but nowhere does it tell you. I am so used to hitting the drop-downs, It did not occur to use keyboard shortcut. BIG HELP!

I included HFSLIP_POST_getnewfiles_v3.cmd and received the NEWBIN.TXT file with about 200 files in it. I can not paste these files into the 'Keep Box." I can Select All and copy but I can not paste into the nLite box. What am I doing wrong? Surely, this can't be!

I have MCE OEM Install on a Dell XPS 400. I, of course, had to order installation disks to re-install the OS after my system corrupted. The OS came with SP2 on one disk. It is obviously based on Windows XP Home. I have no access to MMC or any other Pro features. I recently did a MCE OEM build for my daughter and MCE came on three disks, two for MCE and one Update and Hotfix Disk. The first appears to be Windows XP Pro. The second appears to be the MCE files. It appears that this version of MCE is based on Windows XP Pro. I have not gone thru everything I know to be a Pro feature but I have not run across a Pro feature that I could not use while setting her computer up. Anyone have any feedback or anything to offer on this subject? When Installing and when running SFC, the disks are referred to as "Windows XP Pro Disks One, Two and Update." SFC has no problem with disks One and Two if I put in the appropriate Disk (checked disk label number) regardless of the verbose mis-labeling. SFC asks for the disk that is labeled "Windows XP Update Disk" and I can verify by the label number thet the correct disk is in the drive but it apparently can not extract files needed for the cache. Any Idea what is going on??

I am slipstreaming Post SP2 updates for WXPMCE for a clean, up-to-date re-install. I have notice that there are listed in the current Hotfixes Critical Updates and Security Updates for programs no longer in use. For example, I have installed on my PC Windows Media Player 11 but I am told that there are Security updates that need to be installed for WMP 6, 9 & 10 as well as Security Updates for IE6 when I have IE7. In fact, my current configuration never had WMP 6 or 9 installed but Microsoft Update lists these as Critical Updates on my regular Automatic Updates and tells me I need to install them. My question is, I don't really need these, do I, on my current OS or on the one I am updating? Particularly the new slipstreamed will have no parts of any of those older programs on it at all. Should this be a concern?