First off, THANK YOU all for your efforts! I’m a newbee here that knows enough to be dangerous only to myself. SO much information to poor through… Please note aside from my burning questions, my comments are not meant as criticisms but suggestions for a more simple mind like my to better make use of your tools. I’m in the process of getting an XPCreate session going. I have an Abit TH7-II RAID mobo, 4 identical Seagate drives set up for RAID0+1. All of which are(were) working. I won’t go into the reason I need to do a clean install of WinXP-Pro here. Regarding the HighPoint HPT370 driver integration: In the HPT3XX.OEM file posted in the .cab file http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=13173 It states the SourceDisksFiles to be: hpt3xx.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4 However, when I look at the latest drivers from HighPoint and the drivers from 2002, the SourceDisksFiles state: hpt3xx.sys = 1,, Since I’m not familiar with this line statement, I’m not sure which one is correct. I will attach the OEM and inf file below that was downloaded for you to refer to. Also regarding the SATA/RAID and other documentation issues: I would say yes, you are expecting a well above average person to understand many things before and during the entire process. This is all fine, but for those of us that really want to get into this process, its very confusing and a little scary. On the page: http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm It states: ‘Step One - Edit TXTSETUP.SIF In the I386 directory or your Windows Source Directory, open the TXTSETUP.SIF file in your favorite text editor. Copy the following text into the TXTSETUP.SIF file, at the end of the file, just before the (sometimes invisible) end of file marker’ It took a while to figure out that the TXTSETUP.SIF file was on my WinXP CD. It is not clear if I have to copy this file from the CD to my HDD before I run XPCREATE. Q: Do I have to copy this file from the CD to the hard drive and edit it BEFORE I run XPCREATE? Q: In the TXTSETUP.SIF file from the WinXP CD, the [sourceDisksFiles] and [HardwareIdsDatabase], etc headings already exist. The addraid.htm file in Step One says to ‘copy the following text into the TXTSETUP.SIF file, at the end of the file, just before the (sometimes invisible) end of file marker’. Does that mean this file may contain more than one of the same heading? Q: What about the WINNT.SIF file? Is that too supposed to be copied from the CD to the HDD before the XPCREATE process and edited? On the home page: http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/ it states at the top: ‘When run, XPCREATE connects to an Internet server to obtain a list of hotfixes that must be downloaded for your Windows version. This list will be used to determine which files must be downloaded from the internet, and which files are already present locally.’ Stating ‘must be downloaded’ made it feel like I had to do the downloads even though you go on to say ‘already present locally’. If I may suggest a change in this statement to: ‘When run, XPCREATE will connect to an Internet server and obtain a known list of hotfixes needed for your Windows version. With this hotfix list, XPCREATE will determine which files are needed and it will download them from the internet for you. Should any of these hotfixes have already been downloaded and exist on your system, XPCREATE will skip the download of those files.’ I would also add directly under the section of ‘The main goals of XPCREATE are:’ a section like ‘What XPCREATE will not do’ and then perhaps point to the links section for MSFN unattended, etc. On the page: http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/begin.htm it states: Options:… … - The files WINNT.SIF and CMDLINES.TXT. - Registry settings, in the form of .REG files. - … it would be nice to add to these lines where these files can be found in regard to the WINNT.SIF and the CMDLINES.TXT files. And for the registry settings, whether or not you want us to export our current registry settings or if you are looking for specific registry keys from specific softwares. On the page: http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/quickstart.htm you suggest we familiarize ourselves with the concepts and then point us to the MSFN Unattended site. What I took this to mean is that I needed to add yet more to the XPCREATE folders before I started to run XPCREATE. If by pointing us to this site you meant to say ‘XPCREATE will only create the XP slipstream along with any added device drivers. If you wish to add more to your slipstreamed CD that XPCREATE will create, refer to this site for more information on other files that may be added during the XPCREATE process.’ This was lost on me and I took it to mean there are many other slipstreaming methods with more information to confuse me. On the page: http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/directories.htm at the top you state: ‘There are several directories provided for files that are to be included or integrated into the installations.’ This makes it sound like the user has to download these files. If I may suggest a change: ‘Several directories will be created for you when you run the included XPCREATE.CMD command file before you run the XPCREATE.EXE program. Should you already have any of the below hotfixes, copy them into the appropriate directories. If you don’t have these files, XPCREATE.EXE will attempt through the internet connection to find them and download them into the appropriate directory for you.’ That’s all for now. I’m sure I will have further questions. Again, thank you all for your time. It is greatly appreciated! Alan htp3xxFilesInQuestion.zip