I am a newbie with nLite and have this peculiar problems. I wanted to reduce the installation size like most and produced an iso that is about 147mb. My problem is that it didn't have the winnt32.exe or the root setup.exe. I can't install using a cd rom, so I had to copy the files over to an external drive and trying to install via BartPE. Did I check something that I shouldn't have for this to happen? As a workaround, I copied the full cd contents as well and during the initial options, I chose to copy the files from the nLite source rather the full source, but this caused the installer to prompt for missing files hundreds of times. I got past the missing file error dialogs reasonably quickly by keeping the Alt+S pressed, and it seems to go further and continue to install after a restart. The install might actually succeed now, which is good, but I would like to know if my nLite customization (such as registry tweaks) would have been preserved by using this method of copying files over (I think via the /makelocalresource option). If not, what is the best way to install the nLite build when the files need to be copied? I would appreciate any help. Thank you.