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brute force

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  1. Help someone. i tried driverpacks with mass storage device checked and txt mode enabled. now i cant slipstrem. gives me a cab compress error. when i take the txt mode off, i dont get the error. the usb tutorial and posts here say to use the txt mode enabled. when i user my usb to boot, i get the familiar 07B error. aaarrrggghhhh help thanks to all, resolved. i had to use PettoUSB with quick format and LBA checked. needed to enable txt mode with driverpacks and used the modified NTDETECT.com file. i also updated the BIOS, but this might not need to be done if your computer has the option to boot to USB
  2. Help someone. i tried driverpacks with mass storage device checked and txt mode enabled. now i cant slipstrem. gives me a cab compress error. when i take the txt mode off, i dont get the error. the usb tutorial and posts here say to use the txt mode enabled. when i user my usb to boot, i get the familiar 07B error. aaarrrggghhhh help thanks
  3. (USB) boot process has several stages, say 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.... You fail at 1 or 2, and you are saying: which matters for stage 6-7 or 8 and is not relevant to your problem. Makes sense now? i see. i tried using txt mode and it fails. when i use txt mode. the slipstream fials so i donr even get that far, whereas i got further without the txt mode enabled on mass sotorage. i dont get thi
  4. You need to give more details on the bolded text- black screen, blinking cursor, error message or what?How did you prepare the USB stick, how did you format it, with what program? Do not confuse USB boot ability with what XP source you placed on the USB stick, in that early stage XP version does not matter at all. i have an update. at first i would get blinking txt on black screen. then i saw something in this forum about formatting the usb stick with PEtoUSB. i did that and now i actuall get a menu. dont know why i get a menu for what i want to be an automated install like my dvd. but be that as it may, i saw another post where i should enable mass storage txt mode in my driverpacks. so i will try that next. the reason i am doing this is that i never got a good answer to my problem with computers that dont have a dvd. i need a cd (three: one for xp, one for drivers and one for apps). thus my dvd boots up and on its way doing a completely unatteneded setup. but i need to solve the problem of compuiters without dvd, just cd. so i figured id try booting from a usb stick. so here i am. not quite sure i understand this comment of yours: "Do not confuse USB boot ability with what XP source you placed on the USB stick, in that early stage XP version does not matter at all." thanks for your time
  5. i have a dell optiplex 320 and i cant boot off usb despite following the instructions. i have also tried it on gx260 (with updated bios). same results so something commmon is wrong. you should know that i have successfully created an unattended DVD install that works perfectly. thus i am using the same xp xource folder. i pick usb flash drive out of the menu and i see it access the key but then nothing. it doesnt make sense. help. thanks
  6. yes, started with fresh xp. here is my ini file. this is so frustrating especially since i created successful DVD thanks for your time LAST_SESSION.INI
  7. hi all, i am new to nlite. i have successfully created a DVD with XP, drivers using Bashrat package and apps. I am now trying to create an XP-only CD for machines without DVD. i dont get it but the xp install went fine except that i have no options for video and no drivers. i thought nlite takes the default drivers (cabs) and i would only need to use the driver tab if i had other or newer drivers. (if i look in device manager, i have issues with the vga controller, the ethernet controller and the multimedia controller. please help. is there somewhere i went wrong. thanks for your time
  8. can you elaborate on the second step. i need to understand that also i have googled this but maybe im not looking for the right thing. not much google info talks about separating the driverpacks from the os thanks for your response
  9. ok thanks. i will just need to create a separate xp source folder
  10. i have created an unattended dvd with XP, drivers and some apps. but i have some pc's with just cd drives. how can i create just an xp only cd now that i have created a dvd with nlite. is it simple or do i need to go thru another nlite session. i am also concerned that nlite will overwrite my successful dvd session. is there a shortcut to doing this? what is the best way to separate the os from the drivers and the apps? has anyone had my situation before? thanks for your help
  11. please elaborate since you cant copy dvd to cd since it wont fit on cd. what files do i need to copy? can anyone help here. i would think this would be a simple thing for those of you who have done this multiple times. thanks again for your time
  12. please elaborate since you cant copy dvd to cd since it wont fit on cd. what files do i need to copy?
  13. Didn't you create your DVD starting from a "XP only CD" ? i used nlite and i never had a "xp only " cd because i used other features of nlite. how do i get it to be "xp only" without screwing this up and screwing my "xpcd" only folder?
  14. i have created an unattended dvd with XP, drivers and some apps. but i have some pc's with just cd drives. how can i create just an xp only cd now that i have created a dvd with nlite. is it simple or do i need to go thru another nlite session. i am also concerned that nlite will overwrite my successful dvd session. is there a shortcut to doing this? what is the best way to separate the os from the drivers and the apps? has anyone had my situation before? thanks for your help
  15. all i want to do is change the computer name upon reboot. i dont want to install apps. i have the batch script made for that. can i use this utility? and if i can , how do i run or where/how do i call it in the unattended install thanks for your help
  16. ok, sorry about that. thanks again. and thanks for the links in your signature You are welcome. Cheers ah yes. the pidkey switch works with the .exe, not the .msi thx
  17. ok, sorry about that. thanks again. and thanks for the links in your signature You are welcome. Cheers the pidkey switch does not work. im getting the windows installer 3.01.400 parameters about screen
  18. ok, sorry about that. thanks again. and thanks for the links in your signature
  19. thanks. i knew about the /a switch but did not know about the /pidkey switch. what did you mean when you said "DO not use - in serial."
  20. i am following the instructions for a test simple unattended install of office 2003. looks like it was going until it came to the product key. "not entered a valid key". obviously, i have a valid license but there are no instructions on how to incorporate this into the install. how do i incorporate the key into the install so there is no user input. thanks for your help
  21. dont know. that is what i am trying to get from you. havent tried it yet. but i will be trying today. thanks ricktendo64. (i have other changes im working on, like trying to find how i can do this unattended and resolve a computername problem---need to be able to change computer name) looks like it didnt work. it got stuck at that part of the hotfix process. i had to stop it and now i need to start all over (nlite detected bad blah blah blah). can you elaborate on your answer. thx
  22. no problem. looking forward to your post did uou happen to finish the post. thanks
  23. no problem. looking forward to your post
  24. prey, can you expand and finish the post. for all, fyi, i ran "wmic systemenclosure get serialnumber " and it retrieved the service tag. on dell's, i guess they are one in the same. how can i incorporate this in my unattended install using winnt.sif and get the service tag as the computer name? part of the unattended install is to repartition. again, thanks to all for all your help. im a long way from done, but getting there
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