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change xcopy /Y /E /H %CDROM%\i386\*.* %systemroot%\Source\i386\ to xcopy /Y /E /H %CDROM%\i386\*.* %systemdrive%\Source\i386\ assuming C: is your systemdrive, otherwise just change %systemdrive% to C:\ you'll also need to make the neccessary changes to the reg file.

I'm trying to get this to work with nvraid which has two drivers that need installing. In order to get this to work for the nvraid drivers would I need to make these changed for each .sys file? and would I use the same settings for each? In case anyone ever want to know. This doesn't work with the nvidia raid drivers (nforce3).

To answer my one question. I didn't use a reg file but ended up editing hivesft.inf and hivesft32.inf by appending my driver path to the line HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows",,0x00000012 HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion","DevicePath",0x00020002,"%SystemRoot%\inf;" Example HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows",,0x00000012 HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion","DevicePath",0x00020002,"%systemroot%\inf;%systemroot%\DRIVERS\CHIPSET;more paths;" Don't know the path limit but I assume its 4096 characters. Next created a self extracting exe of my drivers directory using Winrar. Placed this in my AMD64 folder since I'm installing 64bit XP otherwise it would go in the i386 directory. Next edit txtsetup.sif and add the line to copy your self extracting exe. example bootvid.dll = 1,,,,,,3_,2,0,0,,1,2 drivers.exe = 1,,,,,,3_,1,0,0,,1,2 this copies drivers.exe to systemroot or the windows directory. Next add the following line to winnt.sif [GuiUnattended] DetachedProgram="%windir%\drivers.exe" One other thing the drivers.exe if set to extract and over write files with no prompting to the current directory. I was able to use F6 and install all my drivers unattendedly.

I want to create a reg file to create this key in the registry. Anyone know where it belongs? I'm expermenting with creating a self extracting SFX file containing my drivers and a reg file to be run from detatchedprogram. Mainly to get F6 to work and still beable to install drivers. I guess I should ask if any one has done that. I've searched but found no definent answers.

I think thats the best solution. But I'm running 64bit XP and can't get Nvidia Raid to integrate correctly. Also is I wanted to use the CD on someone elses computer it may be nice if F6 worked.

What I do is set oempreinstall=NO in winnt.sif. Then F6 works, but I had to change runonceex to install programs from the CD. Still haven't found a way to install drivers from CD though.

My bad, sorry about that.

Removed my wrong answer.

This was posted in the unattended forum by Yzöwl awhile back. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36086&hl=doiso I've been using it a lot, but when I tried it under XP64 I always got a file not found error. Even though I could go to windows/system32 and see the files were there. I changed it so the files were copied to windows instead and it seems to work now. Removed attachment. Please download the one posted by Yzöwl below.

The settings should be 4 sectors, No emulation and load segment 7C0. Also you must have a boot sector image. If you want to create a bootable CD. But you don't need any of that to write the .iso images of x64 to CD. You can't just copy the iso to the CD. look for a function like 'burn image' of something. What do you see when you insert the CD while in 32bit XP and open the CD?

Hopefully someone else will jump in here. Because I have no idea.

Maybe I miss under stood your question. Do you want to be able to enter any name and have it log on automatically? If thats the case, this wont help. I use this .cmd file called from cmdlines.txt cmdow @ /HID @ECHO OFF net accounts /MAXPWAGE:UNLIMITED net user Jim password /add net localgroup Administrators Jim /add REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v "DefaultUserName" /t REG_SZ /d "Jim" /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v "DefaultPassword" /t REG_SZ /d "password" /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v "AutoAdminLogon" /t REG_SZ /d "1" /f EXIT

I also should have added when you apply any reg tweak to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\... at the T-12 or before, it will be applied to every user. At least thats what I've observed on my unattened installs. Actually I believe its applied to the .DEFAULT USER. Which is used to create each new user.

I don't see why you couldn't use REG QUERY or FIND STR. But I haven't used REG QUERY before so I can't help you there. Here's some links that might help http://unattended.msfn.org/global/timeline.htm http://unattended.msfn.org/index.htm

The SID which is the S-1-5-21-73586283... changes eash time you install XP. And it's different on every computer. If you apply the reg file at the T-12 point the reg tweaks will end up being applied to all users.

Yea, just got sick of trying to get it to work. I'll try again later with a new driver or if someone posts some new info. anyway I ran some tests using HD Tach and it showed the burst speed of the nvidia twice as fast as the si3114r. But the average speed was only a little faster. and CPU use was 10% for the nvidia and 2% for si3114r. Now I need to try some games to see if I notice any difference in loading times.

I'm using raid0. Just don't know why I thought I had it working. Up too late at night I guess I've decided to quit trying to get the nvidia controller to work for now. And have moved all my drives to the si3114r controller.

I'm really embarrassed, found out I don't have the nvraid drivers integrated properly. I have 2 raid arrays, one on the nvraid and one on the si3114r controllers. As long as I boot from and install windows on the si3114r controller all the drives show up in text mode and after the second reboot. If I boot or just install to the nvraid then I get a blue screen with the 0x0000007B error. I was trying to setup a duel boot when I found this out. I've had luck with the methode discussed here http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=47053 getting the si3114r controller, but so far no luck with the nvraid.

I use this cmd file that someone posted awhile ago. you may want to edit it to suit your needs. I run it in my runonceex.cmd file. cmdow @ /HID @ECHO OFF @ECHO OFF IF EXIST C:\WIN51IP set CDROM=C: IF EXIST D:\WIN51IP set CDROM=D: IF EXIST E:\WIN51IP set CDROM=E: IF EXIST F:\WIN51IP set CDROM=F: IF EXIST G:\WIN51IP set CDROM=G: IF EXIST H:\WIN51IP set CDROM=H: IF EXIST I:\WIN51IP set CDROM=I: IF EXIST J:\WIN51IP set CDROM=J: IF EXIST K:\WIN51IP set CDROM=K: IF EXIST L:\WIN51IP set CDROM=L: IF EXIST M:\WIN51IP set CDROM=M: IF EXIST N:\WIN51IP set CDROM=N: IF EXIST O:\WIN51IP set CDROM=O: IF EXIST P:\WIN51IP set CDROM=P: IF EXIST Q:\WIN51IP set CDROM=Q: IF EXIST R:\WIN51IP set CDROM=R: IF EXIST S:\WIN51IP set CDROM=S: IF EXIST T:\WIN51IP set CDROM=T: IF EXIST U:\WIN51IP set CDROM=U: IF EXIST V:\WIN51IP set CDROM=V: IF EXIST W:\WIN51IP set CDROM=W: IF EXIST X:\WIN51IP set CDROM=X: IF EXIST Y:\WIN51IP set CDROM=Y: IF EXIST Z:\WIN51IP set CDROM=Z: ECHO Please wait, Recovery Console is being installed locally. %CDROM%\i386\winnt32.exe /dudisable /cmdcons /unattend md %systemroot%\Source\i386 ECHO Please wait, source files are being copied. This may take several minutes. xcopy /Y /E /H %CDROM%\i386\*.* %systemroot%\Source\i386\ ECHO Adding registry entries. regedit.exe /s %CDROM%\Install\Source.reg ECHO Done. EXIT And here's the reg file Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup] "SourcePath"="%systemroot%\\Source\\" "ServicePackSourcePath"="%systemroot%\\Source\\"

You just gave me an Idea. I had a batch file that copied my winzip files to c:\Program Files(x86) to be installed. But I think if I create a directory on my cd of $OEM$\$1\Program Files(x86)\Winzip. They should be copied into the right directory for me.

Run the group policy editor and go to. Computer configuration/windows setting/local policies/security options.

I used makecab included with windows.

What do you see if you type set at a dos prompt? would programfiles(x86)= "D:\my programs" work?

Perhaps you should post the entire file and someone could help better

It should be [GuiRunOnce] command0="c:\install\gx270\runonce.cmd" command1="do this" command2="do that" and so on