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It does according to this KB article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;232509 But I don't have windows 2000 so I can't tell you for sure.

I would try downloading the file again. Just tried it and it installed ok for me. Here's the md5checksum of the file I downloaded from http://unattended.msfn.org/global/cdimage.htm 4799438a3b81ff40524fd2eb34270595

On your second question, I noticedyou have UnattenedSwitch="Yes" it should be UnattendSwitch = "Yes"

The power toy comes with a wizard to adjust the FontSmoothingGamma value. Once you find the value you like, put it in your reg file. Then there's no need to install both. Unless you want to play around with the wizard.

This worked for me. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...820&hl=KB885250

I'd check the CD again, that files's got to be on the CD. But if it isn't Asus uses that chip on the A7N8X Deluxe mother board. You could down load the drivers for that and copy the file you need from it. http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx

I agree with big poppa pump If you're not willing to try to learn basic DOS commands your going to have a hard time using some of the guides here. CD /? tells you exactly what you want to know. Just take the time to read it.

I'm still not sure what guide your using, but from what you wrote. I think it means you create a directory, for example drivers. copy your drivers to that directory. So you have drivers\sound drivers\graphics etc.. then archive the drivers directory.

use the cd or chdir command. You can type cd /? at the prompt for help. You can also type help for a list of commands and their use. Is this the guide you're talking about? http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/drivers/cd.htm If it is then like the guide says each driver is different. Some you can extract (but not all) by using winrar. sometimes you can type setup.exe /? for a list of switches. If all else fails search in the forums on the driver your trying to extract. If you don't have winrar a search on google will find it for you.

open a command prompt in that directory and type the command

cmdlines.txt ================================================== = [COMMANDS] "useraccounts.cmd" "REGEDIT /S regTweaks.reg" "RunOnceEx.cmd" ================================================== == runonceex.bat ================================================== Rename runonceex.bat to runonceex.cmd

Sound like your drive is just having trouble reading from the cdrw. Try burning at a slower speed or try a different disk, cd-r maybe.

If they were both free I'd use both. The question should be if you had to pay $200 for either one. which one would you buy? And this has what to do with unattended?

You'll have to modify this to delete the right short cut and ruun your sfx. IF EXIST "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\nero\nero startsmart.lnk" ( del "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\nero\nero startsmart.lnk" start /wait myselfextracting.exe ) exit

If your using Nero you can click on the recorder menu and choose burn image. choose the image you used to test on VPC and Nero will burn it to CD for you.

Also make sure your computer is set to boot from the CD before the hard drive. during boot you should see 'press any key to boot from CD'

In your winnt.sif file should be [unattended] Repartition = No and if you have [data] AutoPartition = 1 change it to AutoPartition = 0 or remove it completly You should also have a look at ref.chm in the deployment tools found on the XP pro CD in support\tools\deploy.cab

yes thats what I meant. But I would choose the install drive manually. You can't easily change the boot/system drive after install incase something goes wrong. but you can other drives

The only reliable way I know of to have XP installed on the C: drive is to choose the drive you want to install XP to manually. also I'm assuming these are new drives that will be formatted during install. If thats the case then the first drive you create a partion on will be C: and the other will get a drive letter after any CD drives you have. If the drives are all ready formatted then the boot drive gets assigned C: and the second one D:. another thing if you have any removable drive drives (USB or firewire) remove them before doing the install. On my system they get assinged C if I have them attached during an install.

You saw the drivers being copied during textmode setup. I've had drives show up in textmode and was able to format them. But when windows boots I would get the 7B stop error. I've used this method sucessfully http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49374 with them. Also since you used Bâshrat the Sneaky's Driver Slipstreamer you should ask in the device driver forum about your problem. I'm not familiar with it so i can't help you with it.

If your using an unattened CD then the F6 option doesn't work. You have to integrate the drivers into the CD. I use this method http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/drivers/raid.htm You might also check out the device driver forum. Its the line oempreinstall=yes in the winnt.sif that causes F6 to fail.

With 32bit you could edit the boot.ini file and change /NoExecute=optin to /NoExecute=AlwaysOff Haven't tried it for 64bit.

Thats the error you get when you try to use F6 with an unattened CD/DVD You'll have to integrate the drivers for your sata controller.

enter rundll32.exe iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess at a cmd prompt.

When I had this problem it was because I left a disk in the floppy drive.