renton2000

Have Unattended install DVD of Win XP (With SATA drivers), only problem is that it produces a BSOD just after it loads the drivers - and the text at bottom of screen says "Starting Windows" just before it formats. Have used exact same DVD on friends PC using exact same DVD drive, and formats / installs fine - so must be my hardware. Have unplugged my SATA board and SATA HDD from Motherboard, and have a 60GB Maxtor IDE HDD - But still Blue screens. Have deleted partitions, fixed the MBR using the Recovery console - still BSOD's. have used old Windows XP CD, and that works fine. Unplugged 2nd CD drive - still Blue screens. System is a 2GHz P4, 60GB IDE Maxtor, Pioneer DVD, Plextor CDRW, 512MB, Intel MB. Please help - as I have now got a 100% blank system!

Winnt.sif: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendSwitch="yes" [UserData] ProductID=TBHXM-H6W74-4D8GM-B6XX4-M29T8 FullName="M" OrgName="." ComputerName=Coop [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=800 YResolution=600 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000809 UserLocale=00000809 InputLocale=0809:00000809 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=www.google.com [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=MOLE99 [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile="%Systemroot%\Resources\Themes\Plex Style M4.THEME" [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off freecell=off hearts=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off zonegames=off [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

I am looking in the right place though? Its read part of the Winnt.sif, and now its looking at the txtsetup.sif So am i right in thinking that some of the drivers its loading are bad in txtsetup.sif, so i can slowly start to strip away drivers from this file? Are there any other related files i should be looking at for this stage? What is the main purpose of Dosnet.inf?

Ok - so ive now really screwed my system due to myself being STUPID. I copied TXTsetup.sif from old XP CD to new one. Booted - worked great. Formatted my PC, and then it gave me an error of an SP1.CAB file at line 0 in section [sourceDisksFiles]. Then i realised - How the hell could i copy across the sif file from an old CD which would use and reference totally different setup files to a post SP1 XP CD!!!!!!!!! Anyway - with your solutions - thanks for them but i think your missing my point. I do not need any special RAID / SATA drivers on my computer during the txt setup (or the point it formats the HD). I can set these up AFTER i boot into Windows. I just want to know what sections to strip out of the relevant files in order to skip this part. Its the SATA drivers that i think are giving me a BSOD. I know there shouldnt really be a problem - but there is. Ive tried nLite but i cant see an option to strip the SCSI / SATA drievrs out. The real pain is not being able to test it - ive already wasted 3 DVD's and 2 CD's as i aint got an RW. All my cd/dvd work fine in Virtual PC.

For some strange reason, I hate the way in which everything gets installed to the "Program Files" directory. I much prefer to install to say Utilities directory, a Games directory etc.. Are there any switches to do this for unattended installs on the standard setup programs like InstallShield, Wise etc.. I haven't found much info on this - any ideas?

Thanks for your reply - but I think that I have solved it: I copied the original Txtsetup.sif and the dos.......sif file from my old XP (Pre SP1) CD over to my new DVD. Have quickly tested it and seemed to get past the original error. Can you see any possible errors with what I am doing - keeping in mind that i DONT need the SATA drivers for the install.

I recently modified a version of Windows FD Professional and made my very own Windows XP Pro SP1 Unattended DVD. This DVD works fine under Virtual PC with no problems at all. However, it gives me a blue screen as soon as I try it in my actual PC. It blue screens at the point of the initial Windows text/dos screens - after it asks you to press F6 if you want 3rd Party drivers and after SCSI drivers etc. The Blue screen reveals no hint of where it goes wrong - no file error, nothing. My computer has a single DVD drive, and a normal IDE Hard drive which im trying to install to. I DO have an Si3112 SATA controller with hard drive plugged to it. I've read that theres problems with the SATA drivers, so would a simple solution be to remove all SATA and RAID drivers from the initial install file, which i think is TXTsetup.sif ? If someone could help i would be so happy!