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Thanks. That's what I thought but wanted to make sure.

Does Nlite support Windows 2003 R2? When I select the source directory for my copy of Windows 2003 R2 Standard Edition, it simply recognizes it as Windows 2003 Standard Edition and not R2. This may be accurate and all is OK but wanted to verify this rather than just assume.

I think I finally figured out my problem. This link should explain it in more detail: http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t79889.html I am using a MSDN DVD that is bootable for multiple OSes and thus subject to the noted problem. The use of an ISO instead seems to have resolved my problems. Thanks much to everyone for your assistance!

I found the screen your talking about. I will disable the min req setting and see if that makes a difference or not. Will post another update soon

Presuming your talking about the options screen where there are 2 tabs (General & patches), no. I left all those options as is. I see there's a "Minimum memory requirements" flag, which was set to enabled by default.

If the MSDN disk was corrupted though, I would have expected my attempt to boot from / install directly from it to fail as well; however, I'm able to format the drive without any problems when booting directly off the MSDN CD. That said, I'll see if I can locate an alternative copy to use and see if I have any better luck there

XP Pro SP2

The system in question is a Dell Optiplex SX280. The hard disk is a SATA disk, which is recognized. I did include some drivers (NIC, etc) but nothing explicitly for the disk (which again was recognized). The source CD I'm using is the MSDN CD, which I'm able to install with no problems. Only when I have attempted to use Nlite have I run into problems. I tried creating a 3rd copy to no avail. The exact error message is: "Setup cannot format the partition. Your computer may not have enough memory to perform this operation or you Windows XP CDROM may contain some corrupted files."

I'm using the disc from our MSDN collection but do have a handful of Dell OEM disks that I could possibly use. I am trying to install XP SP2 Pro. The drive is 40 GB in size and is not full. During setup, I deleted the existing partitions, created a new single partition, and attempted to format it, which fails. The system also has 1 GB of RAM.

I have tried reslimming a CD twice using our corporate version of XP SP2. I'll try again without making many many config changes to see if that makes a difference. I do get a blue screen but not the BSOD. It simply notes there isn't enough memory to complete the operation or that some of the files are corrupted.

After configuring Nlite with the various hotfixes, settings, etc that I wanted for XP and creating / burning the ISO file, I attempted to boot from CD. While I am able to boot fine, once I get to the setup screen where a hard drive format occurs, the process fails almost immediately noting there is either not enough memory or some corrupted files on the disc. I am guessing the latter since a fresh XP CD gets by this step just fine. I tried burning 2 different CD's but it didn't help. Can anyone shed any light on potential problems, etc as I'm somewhat baffled at the moment. Thanks