romulopinho

Dear all, Thank you so much for your time and help! As johnhc suggested, I decided to browse the DVD on my own and see what I could find. Eventually, I discovered everything was VERY simple! In fact, so simple that I'm almost ashamed of having bothered you... ;-) Fujitsu apparently made me the favour of putting untouched, per-lanaguage, default XP installations inside the OS folder, in the root dir of the DVD (no surprise it's a 6GB DVD!). So, I copied the English folder to the HD of another computer I have, ran xp-iso-builder, which I had installed already, and created a new iso file with SATA drivers embedded (I have the drivers DVD from fujitsu as well). Then I burned the image to a bootable DVD and guess what? IT WORKED! :-) The installation ran smoothly, just as if I had bought a new XP CD; and with SATA drivers in it, I didn't even bother with the F6 stuff. Now I just have to install the drivers from the DVD, which I think will be a piece of cake too. Of course, my Linux cannot be started for the moment, but I'll soon get Grub running and everything will hopefully be back in place. Well, thank you very much once again for your quick reactions and advice! Cheers, Romulo.

Hi, guys, thanks a lot for the quick replies and for the links! I still have to look through them carefully, but it seems each manufacturer has its own problem/solution (which is expected...) As for my case, though, I guess the dvd is actually a tweaked version of a normal installation (should have said that before). Here are the contents (from a Linux ls command): total 2592 2944 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1446 2006-07-26 14:57 . 3588097 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-07-31 18:23 .. 2946 53 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 54272 2006-07-26 11:06 autorun.exe 2947 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 119 2006-07-19 16:48 autorun.inf 3008 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 618 2006-07-26 14:57 bin 3072 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 712 2006-07-26 14:57 i386 2951 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 541 2006-07-26 16:27 lang.txt 3136 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 622 2006-07-26 14:57 lib 2953 340 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 348160 2005-05-10 16:04 msvcr71.dll 2955 47 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 47772 2005-03-25 13:00 ntdetect.com 2956 292 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 298096 2005-03-25 13:00 ntldr 3200 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 536 2006-07-26 14:57 os 2958 1828 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1871872 2006-03-29 17:35 python24.dll 2961 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 746 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_cze.txt 2963 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 786 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_dan.txt 2964 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 850 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_dut.txt 2966 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 700 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_eng.txt 2967 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 814 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_fin.txt 2969 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 962 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_frn.txt 2970 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 878 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_ger.txt 2972 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 952 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_grk.txt 2973 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 784 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_hun.txt 2975 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 894 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_itn.txt 2976 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 756 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_nor.txt 2978 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 766 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_pol.txt 2979 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 936 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_spa.txt 2981 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 758 2005-02-23 11:46 readme_swe.txt 2960 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 700 2006-07-19 16:48 readme.txt 2982 5 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4608 2006-03-29 17:35 w9xpopen.exe 2984 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 2005-03-25 13:00 win51 2985 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 2005-03-25 13:00 win51is 2986 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 2005-03-25 13:00 win51is.sp1 2987 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 167 2005-03-25 13:00 winbom.ini As you can see, there is an i386 folder and inside it: total 1343 3072 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 712 2006-07-26 14:57 . 2944 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1446 2006-07-26 14:57 .. 3074 43 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 43336 2005-03-25 13:00 biosinfo.inf 3075 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2005-03-25 13:00 bootfix.bin 3328 7 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6980 2006-07-26 14:57 fonts 3584 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 552 2006-07-26 14:57 help 3648 6 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5796 2006-07-26 14:57 inf 3840 1 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 106 2006-07-26 14:57 msagent 3081 47 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 47772 2005-03-25 13:00 ntdetect.com 3083 292 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 298096 2005-03-25 13:00 setupldr.bin 3084 272 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 278016 2005-03-25 13:00 setupldr.exe 3086 161 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 164864 2005-03-25 13:00 spcmdcon.sys 3087 24 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 24482 2005-03-25 13:00 startrom.com 3904 21 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 20618 2006-07-26 14:57 system32 3090 465 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 475836 2006-07-26 13:11 txtsetup.sif 3091 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 167 2005-03-25 13:00 winbom.ini 4608 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1436 2006-07-26 14:57 winsxs After booting with the DVD, a Fujitsu application takes control and asks me to select the languague. The installation goes on, but I didn't dare to check any further... Any other thoughts would be very welcome. Thanks again! Cheers, Romulo.

Hi everyone, I've just subscribed and couldn't find anything related to this in this forum, but sorry if it's a double post. I have a fujitsu notebook (Amilo Si1520) with XP Home SP2 pre-installed, on which I later installed Ubuntu Linux (dual boot). I had severe virus problems on XP recently and eventually deleted all its files from Linux. Now I have a partition with Linux and an empty NTFS partition in my HD. I would like to reinstall XP from my original fujitsu recovery DVD but the only option it gives is to reset the HD, i.e., format the entire HD and I'll have to lose my Linux installation, which I don't want. Is it possible to convert the recovery XP DVD to a normal DVD with nLite, removing this restrictive option? That is, can I make a normal XP installation in which I chose the partition to install it? I tried it with xp-iso-builder but it didn't work (or I did sth wrong). Many thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Romulo.