midiboy

Hi GreenMachine! Thank you for your answer ! That is not true unfortunately. If a partition is created during the first stage of Windows setup, it will be assigned a drive letter but will not be formatted. Writing a test file and then checking if the file exists would be a possibility but there may be a "cleaner" way to check if the driver is formatted or not, because if the drive is indeed a CDROM formatting would obviously fail. Also I just found out that the above registry tweak to create shell folders ( which I found out by monitoring registry changes while making those changes with TweakUI ) does not work at all. The folders still point to the default Shell folders in %USERPROFIL% Any idea why this tweak does not work ? Possibly because of the use of the environment variable %USERNAME% ? Thanks, Alex

Hi guys ! I am trying to automate the creation of user shell folder so I created the following batch files: 1. 2. I am calling those at the beginning of my runonceex files. I don´t know yet if those work correctly because when I tested on my virtual machine drive D was not yet formatted. Now my idea is the following: Would it be possible to let Windows check at this stage during the setup if D: is formatted yet and if it is to do the above and if it is not, to first make a quick format with NTFS and then do the above ?? This of course should be safe, because if there are data on D. already it should not reformat the drive ! Any ideas ? Thanks for your help Alex

Hi guys ! I have followed the Multiboot DVD guide very carefully and everything is working fine. Windows XP Unattended, ERD Commander and Acronis True Image are all booting up fine with the DVD. However, ERD Commander gives me problems after startup. If I boot from the original bootCD the ERD Commander Wizard creates, everything works fine. I get the "network winbom error" in my Virtual machine but apart from that I do not need to add any license code nor does ERD prompt me for a ERD password (which I set to none during the creation process). If I boot ERD commander from my Multiboot DVD however, I am first asked for the license file. I did add this to the ISO image so I paste in the information. Then ERD asks me to attach to the Windows XP installation on disk and then I am asked for the ERD Commander password. However, this password does not exist, I did not tell the ERD Wizard to create one so obviously I am stuck there. Anyone else has this problem ? I copied the whole content of the i386 folder to the ERD1 folder and hexedited the setupldr.bin ... anything else I need to do ? Thanks for your help ! Alex