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To be honest, I didn't think that would work. But it did! Booting as usual. THANK YOU!

Sorry, and thanks. Seems to work fine!

I'm really thankful for the hint, but I'm not using nLite. I'm manually editing the WINNT.SIF. Is there an equivalent line in WINNT.SIF for that "Prompt repair" option in nLite? Judging from Electricians last post in that thread the repair option wont show as long as I have a WINNT.SIF on the cd.

I had trouble deleting a folder (the dreaded "cannot delete folder" explorer message). I suspect it had something to do with the files being in a too deep folder/file structure. SyncBack couldn't back them up either.So I decided to install Unlocker. Even Unlocker couldn't delete them and asked to do it at the next restart of XP. I chose to do so and rebooted. I saw the BIOS screen but then everything goes black. When trying to boot into safe mode I get the message in the code snippet of my first post in this thread. I have tried peeking in the boot.ini, but there's nothing weird. I ran bootcfg /rebuild just to be shure too. Still the same problem.

Thanks for you reply and sorry for expressing myself badly. I guess my question is simply: If I put the following in WINNT.SIF: UnattendedInstall="No" will this line: ProfilesDir="D:\Users\" be ignored? If the answer is yes, could I change the "UnattendMode" to something to still show this:

The cd I installed XP from was an unattended installation cd with WINNT.SIF modified to: ProfilesDir="D:\Users\" As this is an unattended install cd I can't do an in-place installation (repair) as I get directly to this screen: If I want to make a new installation cd with nlite, how should I set my WINNT.SIF to still set "ProfilesDir" to "D:\Users\" but not make in completely unattended so that it does not skip this screen: Is this possible by just setting "UnattendedInstall" to "No"? If I do that, will the ProfilesDir="D:\Users\" still do it's magic or is it linked to having UnattendedInstall set to "Yes"? Here's the WINNT.SIF I used for the installation: [Data] AutomaticUpdates="No" Autopartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=DefaultHide UnattendSwitch="No" OemPreinstall="No" OemSkipEula="Yes" FileSystem=* WaitForReboot="No" NoWaitAfterTextMode=1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore Hibernation="No" [SetupData] OSLoadOptionsVar="/noexecute=optin" [Display] Xresolution=800 Yresolution=600 BitsPerPel=16 [SystemRestore] DisableSR=1 CreateFirstRunRp=0 [GuiUnattended] TimeZone=020 OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="D:\Users\" [Shell] DefaultThemesOff="Yes" [Components] OEAccess = Off [UserData] ProductKey="Wont Print Here" [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language= "0409" [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents="Yes" [WindowsFirewall] Profiles=WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode=0 [GuiRunOnce] "%SystemRoot%\System32\nLite.cmd"

Nothing happens when I try to boot, black screen. When doing F8 > Safe Mode I get the following (XP SP3): multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\KDCOM.DLL multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll I've tried fixboot, fixmbr and chkdsk /r. No luck. Any ideas?