cakersq

I absolutly agree with you there. Windows has a hard enough time running, even when it's a fresh install. Unfortunatly, I have to upgrade 10 machines, while keeping the user information, programs and documents intact. Thanks anyways...

I have many CD's that I have created with the help of the many unattended forums here (thanks guys). I have one CD that just the default settings (no unattended setup) but with Service Pack 2 slipstreamed into it. The CD works perfectly for installing Windows. The problem is that the CD will no longer upgrade a windows 2000 machine to Windows XP. When running the setup in Windows, I get a "Windows XP Pro cannot upgrade Windows 2000 Pro." Is there a way to slipstream SP2 into Windows and still be able to upgrade?

To get around this problem, click on the "CUSTOM LEVEL" tab. In the "Reset To:" Field, select Medium-Low (I wouldn't go below that) and click the RESET button. It is a work around, but it does work As for the "Open File - Security Warning," I haven't disabled that one yet. I'm going to try a few things, such as disabling the Security Center services. G-Luck -CakeRSq Cake are square, Pi are round. Mathematicians have their dessert backwards.

First, I wouldn't install windows to the SATA drives. The install becomes unstable, especially the boot sector. If you still want to install windows to the SATA drives and have them as the C: drive, there are a couple of options. You hit on the first which is to remove the other drives, temporarily. The other option is to use an interesting Windows Bug. If you enter the bios, and go to the Standard BIOS Options menu, and set the hard drives to NONE. Important, do NOT disable the Onboard IDE connectors from the Integrated Peripherials. Reboot the comptuer and boot the Windows XP CD, press F6 to load the SATA Drivers. When the setup menu boots, it will still display the IDE drives. Partition the SATA Drive, and ignore the fact that that it might not be the C: drive. Then Reboot the computer. After you boot Windows CD with the SATA Drivers again, the SATA Drive will be the C: Drive. This is due to the fact that Windows will scan for BIOS drives, and load those drives after the "SCSI" Drivers.