johnhc

tslug, without a Last Session, we have no chance of responding. Please attach your Last Session.ini and _u.ini files. The _u.ini contains private data (CD Key, PWs, etc), so please obscure those parts. My PW does not expire. Enjoy, John.

Falkoner, you probably need to post this in the nLite forum, but I have a fundamental question. Are you using this in a business environment? The nLite license agreement permits only personal use. Please see the agreement in the nLite folder in the Program Files folder. Please see my attached screen shot of the nLite Unattended Help for the Unattended Mode. Basically, unless you use Prompt Repair, this option does not appear. Enjoy, John.

couscous, I took a quick look at the before and after copy of my SYSSETUP.INI and there are major differences (XP x64). My original has 1889 lines and the nLite modified one is 1443. Lots of blank lines missing and some other stuff. This is not a file we look into regularly. I am at lease somewhat familiar with several nLite modified/created files, but not this one. You might do a search, using Google, for 'nlite syssetup.ini:http://www.msfn.org', without the quotes. Google works much better than the MSFN search function. I think there are a few people here who worked with nuhi but I have no idea what parts. Fernando 1 did help with the driver integration. Without your Last Session.ini we cannot comment on what may be the problem (not including a bug). Enjoy, John.

couscous, the author/owner, nuhi, of nLite has not participated here in over a year. Expecting a change to nLite is expecting too much. You may, or may not, have found an nLite bug, but no matter, the only fix we can suggest is to create a work around. It seems you have done this for your situation. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy, John.

Sormano, try this link and the AddOns forum above. Please attach your Last Session.ini as requested in the BOLD RED print above. Enjoy, John.

matt79, that is what I assumed. Please try the Google search. Have you tried renaming the 'application data' folder to I386 and creating an ISO? Enjoy, John.

matt79, thanks for the Last Session. First you are running nLite under Vista (or W7) to create an ISO for XP. This will not work when a Service Pack is integrated, which you have done. I have never seen the Application Data name for the I386 folder before and assume it has nothing to do with using Vista. It is best to use XP to run nLite. You can do this under VPC, if you don't have an XP system to use. Please go to Google and paste 'nlite "recovery partition " site:http://www.msfn.org', without the single quotes into the input line. You will get many good hits and hopefully some real help. Enjoy, John.

donixa, you need to Enable Uxtheme and Disable SFC - please see attached screen shot. Where did you get your Corporate Edition of XP? I don't know anything about Business Contact Manager 2007, but it too sounds like business use. The nLite license agreement does not allow business use, only personal use. If you are using nLite in a non-personal environment, then you are violating the license, should stop using it and we cannot help you here. You should get no errors when you run nLite and do your install. My comments is that I would not use a system that had error messages until I corrected them or completely understood their source. Enjoy, John.

matt79, I have never personally encountered a recovery disk/partition, so I don't really know if this is Dell's way of doing recovery. I do know that some here have had success with Recovery CDs and some have not. That is why I suggested that you do some searching. Why nLite would rename the I386 folder to application data is beyond me. Just for the fun of it, try renaming the folder back to I386, create an ISO then test on a virtual machine. VMs are the best way to test these kinds of things. VMware Player, VirtualPC and VirtualBox are all free. Please let us know what you learn and be sure to attach your Last Session.ini. Enjoy, John.

matt79, this may be a recovery folder. Please do some searching for nLite and Recovery CDs. Google seems to work better that the MSFN search. Just go to Advanced and specify the MSFN site to search. Enjoy, John.

sittingduck, nothing much is really being done. [RemoveFiles] clock.avi yahoo.bmp swtchbrd.bmp This is about it - just deleting some files that are usually not needed. As -X- says, go to the Components Task, Advanced and you can remove these. I see you have modified the Program Files and the temporary folder paths, so you have really not just included drivers. The [NetAdapter1] entry does nothing since it does not contain a MAC address - don't know why it is even there. Are you concerned about anything else? Enjoy, John.

so-> like i said i have been trying to figure out how to edit the topic, and all ive been able to do is edit the post(i do beleive only an Admin can edit a topic but hey im just newb). i will attach another session file workingb, not true. As told before, please edit your first post, click Full Edit, then change the title which will be displayed for you. Also always run nLite only once always starting with a fresh copy of your CD files/folders. I would also suggest you integrate SP3. Enjoy, John.

matt79, this whole description makes little sense to me. Where did your friend come up with such a thing? Is it a legal copy of XP? If not, we cannot talk about it here. Please post a screen shot of a Windows Explorer view of the original CD and the nLited folder. Enjoy, John.

donixa, I also run XP x64, so have been here. Your missing Quick Launch is probably due to running nLite more than one against the same source. GrofLuigi is correct, running nLite more than once and running under Vista for an XP ISO is quite problematical. I would suggest you do all your running under XP x64. Where did your source come from? If you DLed an already nLited source, then you are dealing with Warez and we cannot talk about it here. You must have a valid legal copy of XP with a valid key. DLing copies of XP is dangerous anyway due to malware. Please let us know where your source comes from, make a single nLite run using a fresh copy of your CD files/folders (un-nLited) and attach the Last Session. Enjoy, John. EDIT: You will need the Uxtheme and the SFC disable to include an unsigned theme in XP x64.

Tripredacus, you may well be on to something. If so, please let us know. Perhaps you have an ATI driver problem. I would suggest you remove the ATI driver, if you can (you said you could not uninstall). If you can boot, don't let the video driver install and go to the AMD site and get the latest ATI driver/CCC for your card. If your onboard GPU really works, use the BIOS to disable the ATI card (PCIE slot) and see if you can run. Use the BIOS to disable the onboard GPU and see if you can run with the ATI card with the new drivers. The DMI data at the end of the BIOS portion of the boot will tell you what HW is detected. You can interpret the vendor and device ID via Google. On my machine, and maybe many, hitting Pause/Break will halt the BIOS screen display till another key is hit. These ideas of mine are are free association and not in a logical order. I am just trying to get you thinking of some things to try. Enjoy, John. EDIT: I assume you have used Ctrl-Alt-Del or some other key(s) to bring up the Task Manager.

MarkJohnson, couple of guesses - never used multiple monitors. Right click Desk Top, click Properties, then Settings. See if there is a place to select just one monitor. Right click My Computer, click Manage, then Device Manager. Look for Monitors (click +) and see if there are two. Right click and Uninstall the one that is not really there. Enjoy, John.

MarkJohnson, sorry, guess I missed the point that the DVD works fine on your current system. In order to find the ntdll.dll file on the DVD you will need to mount the image. If you are not familiar with this, then it is probably a lot of work. It requires installing WAIK (Windows Automated Install Kit for W7) and running DISM. Since your DVD works on one system, then it is probably not a bad disk. The System Log I was talking about is on the system (assume XP) that you used to copy the DVD into a folder. Right click My Computer and click Manage then Event Viewer. The System Log should be in the drop list. It is looking very much like a HW problem on your new system. Do you have any HW you can swap, such as an optical drive, memory or HDD? Are you sure you have the BIOS set to normal settings for the CPU and memory - no overclock at all? Otherwise, it may well be time to RMA - but what? I would suggest you try searching the BioStar forum for your MB and see if you can discover anyone with the problem. Since you have two problems with W7 and none with XP or Linux, perhaps it is a problem with your optical drive reading DVDs. Perhaps swap in the one from your current system. Good luck, John.

ratsalad, looks like to me you have given the account 'system' permission. Are you running under it - suspect not? Are you using a user account with administrator privileges? Try your same command but use the name of the account your are running under. Enjoy, John.

I have no clue, I don't get this far. XP find it just fine, and XP seems to be running fine. Memtest passes, OCCT CPU stress test is running fine so far in XP, It's only been 10 minutes, but it's only gotten a max temp of 51C. My hard drive is a Hitachi Deskstar 1TB Not sure what else to try, other than RMA. MarkJohnson, Google gets lots of hits on "Unknown Hard Error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll". Have you looked at ntdll.dll on your DVD (check the hash codes)? I guess you will need to read your DVD into a folder, mount the image and look at the file. I am using W7 x64, so I assume my copy of the file will not have the same hash as yours, but here is the 32 bit version (6.1.7600.16385) of mine. After you read the DVD, look at your System log and see if you have any errors coming from your optical drive. I assume you have a running system to do these tests. Another consideration is your HDD. Enjoy, John.

Rabus, thanks for the screen shot and Last Session. You are using Vista (or W7) to create an XP ISO with nLite. This can lead to problems especially if you are slipping a Service Pack. I do not see your including an SP, which leads me to ask, have you run nLite more than once against the same source? You should always start with a fresh copy of your CD files/folders and run nLite only once doing all your work. I assume you have plenty of space on your HDD. It might be useful to delete all the files in your temporary folder, but I suspect the problem is in your drivers. It is not necessary to include all those versions of the drivers and may lead to a problem of the driver files (.sys) may all have the same name. This can lead to your getting the wrong driver installed. I suggest your look at the sticky above by Fernando 1 (driver expert here). He provides a driver, I think, for your HW and I recommend you try it. Try running under XP, if you can, and be sure to post your Last Session if you have further questions/problems. Enjoy, John.

Yes, thanks cluberti for providing a reference argument for all of us. For future reference, I do not think nLite has a problem with modification of the Program Files path. I have gone to the bottom of the drawer and found an old CD XP Pro from a very old machine and run nLite against it. I used my XP x64 host to run nLite. Changing the Program Files path proved to be no problem (once I remembered how to run VMware Player again). Attached are my Last Session.ini and Last Session_u.ini (expurgated). I only added SP3 and ran the Unattended Task. Please let me know if there are any questions. Have fun, John.

Rabus, welcome. Please attach your Last Session.ini as requested in BOLD RED letters at the top. Please also post a screen shot of the error message. Enjoy, John.

mbenazeraf, as I pointed out before, nLite will include the needed driver for you. The Unattended DVD Guide (link at bottom of page) will also tell you how to do this manually. Another option is VMware Player. It is free and I suspect it will recognize your printer and DVD. Enjoy, John.

mbenazeraf, it would be a big help if we could know the Stop code on the BSOD. It may be a 07B, which means it is having driver problems (most likely) and cannot find your SATA or RAID HDD you are installing XP. During the very front of the XP install, your will be asked if you have any mass storage drivers to install. This is where you press F6 and, using the floppy drive, install drivers. If you do not have a floppy you might want to consider nLite (forum below here) that will integrate drivers for you. I should point out nLite is for personal use only and cannot be used for business use. Enjoy, John.

bjhs, I am not an attorney, but I should hope that a moderator will rule on the EULA question. As I read it (found in nLite folder in Program Files), only personal use is allowed. We have seen several posters working for non-profits with this problem and I do not remember the answer. Why don't you PM cluberti and ask his opinion. I should point out that nuhi (nLite author/owner) has not participated here in over a year. Users of nLite are always in some danger (perhaps little) of nLite simply disappearing some day. The support you get in the forum is all you can hope for and may not satisfy management. Please let us know what cluberti has to say. There are other ways (not automated) to accomplish what you are trying just using MS tools. At the bottom of this page is a link to the Unattended Guide and there is an Unattended forum here also. Enjoy, John.