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Dear Friends, I would like to know how to create a recovery partition. I have a Dell Laptop and there is a recovery partition - using this at any point I can revert back to Factory defaults. Suppose I delete the recovery partition (I mean format my entire hard drive ) Is there a way to create the recovery partition again ? I have Dell supplied Windows CD with me. Also I could see Factory.wim (6.98 GB) ,Base.wim (6.98 GB) and few other files in the recovery partition. So with these resources available Can I create a recovery partition If I delete the recovery partition When I asked Dell Technical Support Executive the person said that it is not possible because some information regarding the recovery partition will be written to the boot record. Can Some one help me on this ?

My Network configuration is as follows: 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.255 (Subnetmask - 255.255.255.0 ) 192.168.3.1-192.168.3.255 (Subnetmask - 255.255.255.0 ) I have only one Domain controller with two NIC cards. One NIC card is connected to 192.168.2.0 Network(via one switch) and other NIC card is connected to 192.168.3.0 network (via another switch). Will this one server serve as DC for two networks ? (One Domain is enough). Please see the Network configuration at http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8596/networkf.jpg (Uploaded as well)

My Network configuration is as follows: 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.255 (Subnetmask - 255.255.255.0 ) 192.168.3.1-192.168.3.255 (Subnetmask - 255.255.255.0 ) I have only one Domain controller with two NIC cards. One NIC card is connected to 192.168.2.0 Network(via one switch) and other NIC card is connected to 192.168.3.0 network (via another switch). Will this one server serve as DC for two networks ? (One Domain is enough). Please see the Network configuration at http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8596/networkf.jpg (Uploaded as well)

yes I changed this and it got working

we can see drivers are installed via WINNT.SIF Hot fixes via the svcpack.inf file and other applications using the runonceEX What are the basic difference between the three method ? Why not we can install all the drivers,hotfix and other application using the runonce method or using winnt.sif or svcpack.inf ? Why do we have to differentiate different installations via different method ?

Hi, I am using the cmdlines.txt and RunOnceEx.cmd method to install certain applications. unattended installation of XP gets over and in the first log on it executed the RunOnceEx.cmd and it says C:\install\FR30.msi is not found I have placed the cmdlines.txt and RunOnceEx.cmd in $OEM$ folder ---------------cmdlines.txt start------------------------------- [COMMANDS] "RunOnceEx.cmd" ---------------cmdlines.txt end------------------------------- ---------------RunOnceEx.cmd start--------------------------- @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Foxit Reader" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\FR30.msi /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\regtweaks.reg" /f EXIT ---------------RunOnceEx.cmd end--------------------------- These are the contents of the respective files. I have placed FR30.msi and regtweaks.reg under $OEM$\$1\install folder I could see the RunonceEx.cmd getting executed But it says FR30.msi is missing The registry tweaks are also not getting added.but no error message is displayed Some one please help me. I am using win xp pro sp3 (slipstreamed). I am testing this with VIrtual PC

Hi, I am encountering a problem while installing windows media player 11 using the unattended setup I used the svcpack.inf method Below is the content of svspack.inf file ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;Windows XP [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=2600 [setupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\SVCPACK" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [setupHotfixesToRun] wmp11.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /P:#e" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Get at the 10 minute of XP unattended installation "Invalid command line switch" I have placed the svcpack.inf file in the I386 directory and the setup of win mp 11.exe in \i386\SVCPACK folder as I have put the correct path/file name in the svcpack.inf file Some one please help me I am using win xp pro sp3 (slipstreamed). I am testing this with VIrtual PC