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Thanks for your reply Trance, I tried the xp instal to new sata drive without using F6 as I had no floppy drive. The installation was successful, and system properties shows SP2. Didn't know the xp-cd had sp2 slipstreamed already. Before I started the new installation, I used the product-key software to extract from previous ide-drive. Anyway, I'm good to go. Thanks Sizzla

Hello, Thank you Fernando for sharing this info. Just put together a new system with a "XFX nForce 630I GEFORCE 7100 SOCKET775" motherboard. I don't know if using RAID for speed will show significant speed increase. The system have 1 500GB sata drive, 2 1TB sata drives, and 1 10GB IDE drive. The board has one IDE channel and 4 SATA ports. I want to use nLite to create the XP-Pro install CD with SP3, post sp3 hotfixes, OpenOffice and other essentials like directX, FlashPlayer, Spybot, Anti-Virus, etc. I've read these threads and not sure if I missed it, but I'm looking to get pass the F6 issue with no floppy and I'm not looking to use RAID unless someone tells me the improved speed is worthy. I burn for backups so I'm not looking for redundancy. The info here seems to be geared for RAID, or should I follow the same instructions If I don't plan on using RAID. Just want to get pass the F6/no floppy issue. Thanks Sizzla