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Hello Friends, Some advise for those of you who use IDE Controllers or Raid Controllers with Harddisk over 137GB connected in Windows XP even SP2 with native XP drivers for controller card Some time ago, i started to experience strange problems with some of my harddisks, where data was getting corrupted, because of corrupted MBR. Some examples: Movies where either not viewable anymore (Files still present, same size) or contained crosslinks to other files (e.g. movie Troy is showing Shark Tale). Pictures not displaying image Text files Empty At on point one of my drives was even not accessable anymore in windows. Later found out that restoring a Ghost Image fixed MBR, and made most of the files viewable and readable again. The problems occured everytime i added new files to the disk (growing over 137GB, Wasn't aware of that at that time). I had connected the my drives on Asus P4P800 Deluxe as follows: Primary IDE on Motherboard: CD-Rom CD-RW Secondary IDE on Motherboard: DVD-Rom DVD-RW SATA1: Western Digital 160GB (Never any Problems) SATA2: Western Digital 160GB (Never any Problems) Promise Ultra 100TX2 IDE Controller Card Primary IDE: Maxtor 120GB (Never any Problems) Western Digital 120GB (Never any Problems) Secondary IDE: Maxtor 250GB (Problems populating over 137GB) Western Digital 200GB (Problems populating over 137GB) Primary Via Raid Controller Onboard: (Not Setup as Raid) Western Digital 120GB Western Digital 250GB Secondary Via Raid Controller Onboard: None Don't worry i have enough power!! Turns out that i was using native XP drivers for the Promise card, wich looked okay, (Also sizes in windows explorer) but harddisk where not recognized as being 250GB or 200Gb thus corrupting data everytime when writing above 137GB. At first i wasn't aware of this as windows XP Service pack1 and above support drives over 137GB. You can verify this by doing a boot from windows CD, not pressing F6 and looking at the size of drives when windows asks where to install to. (You'll see the difference I've solved the problem by forcing the latest drivers from manufacturer (F6, load from floppy), or integrating drivers into unattended install CD. Don't end up losing precious data like i did and spending precious days trying to restore. So my advise to all is: 1) Install manufacturer's drivers 2) Check for the correct detection of HardDisk Size (Not in windows Explorer) I should probably start a lawsuite against microsoft for leaving this detail out and losing precious data, but just thought you had to know!

That's an easy one! First you have to install the office support tools and create a new MST file (same way as creating MST file for office applications). See Office 2003 advanced installation. !!Don't forget to copy the MST Setup commandline for later use!! Then create a new folder with all the setup files (including the 2 folders) in it, except the CAB files. Next Execute the setup regularly and when it asks you for a cab file, just copy it to the new folder and press retry. (repeat this for every CAB file it asks for, until setup is completed successfully). Your new folder is now your Proofing tools setup directory. Rename and copy the folder to the Installsource, edit the commandline to fit your source and add the commandline to runonceex file (with MST switches). thats's it your done! good luck!

Hi, I have a problem installing Realmagic Xcard from Sigma Designs. First i have to install the device drivers and then the application. Problem 1: i've added the driver to OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\003_Xcard;" in my winnt.sif file and created the folder with the diver files as described in MSFN unatteded device drivers . But when windows is installed, the driver is not installed correctly. Has anybody successfully installed the, and if so could you point me in the right direction?? Problem 2: The silent install of the application can be done using a "setup.iss" file with the "-s" switch, but during silent install, i get prompted for a COM port for the remote control (Regardless if imported old registry keys or ini files). Has anybody created a way to install this silently?? (I use COM port 2 for my remote).

Help!!! I have a problem with adding pinnacle showcenter v1.51 silent install to my unattended Setup. (Pinnacle Showcenter) Description: It uses a regular setup.exe, for wich i can generate a setup.iss. During silent setup, the installer runs another program called pixietool, where i have to enter my Pinnacle license number and user info (installer halts). If during the silent install the information is filled in, the installer continues as a regular silent install. I've tried everything from importing registry keys, editing .ini's to adding files wich the license tool creates to store the information, but i think there is some kind of script in the setup, that always calls to the license program (regardless of running setup over an existing installation). There is also no documentation for this on the web. Has anybody had the same problem before, if so could you give me some pointers on how to go about this problem? or maybe someone has created a new setup or msi package for this which i can use. Please can somebody help me??

!Very Important! Please remember to include the -f2<path_to_log_file> switch when running an installshield setup from CD-Rom. This was not mentioned on the Unattended Site and i hope this will help others out there. Note: A silent installation cannot be run directly from a CD-ROM, as the installation program tries to write the result log file in the same directory where the response file (setup-client.iss) is located. This will naturally fail on the read-only directory on the CD-ROM media. Instead either copy the response file to a local directory, or use the -f2 command line option to specify another location for the generated log file. See the following example: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cmdow @ /HID @echo off IF EXIST U:\CD.txt set CDROM=U: IF EXIST V:\CD.txt set CDROM=V: IF EXIST W:\CD.txt set CDROM=W: IF EXIST X:\CD.txt set CDROM=X: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\prepare.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Windows Media Player 10" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\install\WMP10\MPSetupXP.exe /Q:A /R:N" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /VE /D "MSI FX5200 TDR128 Video" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Drivers\002_graphics\Setup.exe -s -f2c:\install.log" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Apps\MSI_Live_Update\Setup.exe -s -f2c:\install.log" /f ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what it does is the following: -f2 tells installshield to write the logfile in a different location, so in the above example it writes the logfile to "C:\install.log". Hope it helps. L8R G8Rz

Hi, I use the following and works like a charm! Just copy it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cmdow @ /HID @echo off IF EXIST U:\CD.txt set CDROM=U: IF EXIST V:\CD.txt set CDROM=V: IF EXIST W:\CD.txt set CDROM=W: IF EXIST X:\CD.txt set CDROM=X: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\prepare.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Windows Media Player 10" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\install\WMP10\MPSetupXP.exe /Q:A /R:N" /f ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------