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Thank you both.It is late.Ishall do as advised and report back

As mentioned earlier the Laptop is Acer Aspire 3660. Yes I will use the correct key. I believe SP1 is with the OS and does not need to be attached.In case that is necessary please tell me how to do it. What else should I do? Thank you.

Thank you. The file is enclosed. Found in xp folder. nLite folder Presets is emkpty. LAST SESSION.INI

I have an Acer Aspire 3660 Laptop. Children (Grand) did something and every thing including a built in recovery system was lost. Then the abelest of the lot (11years) attempted to install XP Professional and that really did it in. There was never a OS disk with the laptop. So I am reduced to installing a generic xp home cd provided by a friend!! It is generic, in that it is not bootable. I was then advised to use nLite to make it bootable. While preparing nLite to make an ISO I came to the section Add Drivers I navigated to the folder Drivers where I had downloaded all the correct drivers fron Acer.( I am doing all this on my other PC ).But there appears a problem.nLite does not even show the driver folders because it looks for inf file.Therefore I can not load the drivers.It is most important to do so because the xp home I have is very old and does not have the ATI Chipset drver.Without it the mouse cursor freezes and cannot complete installation. Johnhc: Thank you for the prompt reply. I am afraid I did not understand what info you wanted. At the moment I have nothing but a folder that has xp home and a folder with all the drivers(Zipped) UNzipped also did not work. Everything else was deleted so we can start fresh. My fault. Please help.This is driving me crazy.I am ignorant about these matters as well as not clever.

Mr. Moderator; Please remove this topic. As advised by Johnhc I am moving to nLite sub forum. Apologies for making an incorrect post.

I am old and not clever.Please help. I was attempting to make an ISO of xp home and add drivers for unattended install. When I came to the add driver section,I navigated to the correct folder(In my other PC ) it would not show them because nLite was looking for inf. files. I jhad downloaded the drivers from the computer manufacturer, Acer (Aspire 3660 notebook ) and they are zipped. To experiment I Extracted one but no luck loading because it was not inf.file. I renamed the file by adding inf.at the end.No deal. How can I add the drivers to nLite. This is very neccessary because there is not origional disk and the children completely messed up the reinstallation system of some sort within the notebook.So I am using a generic! xp home but the ATI chipset driver has to be installed at installation, withouit it the mouse does not work. What shall I do? Please help. Thank you in advance.