[Setup Scheduled Programs]

I'm working on a install for a work laptop, we had problems with corrupt sectors on the hard drive. I would like to have it so that when I install the new copy of XP it will have disk checker set to run once a week.

[Multiple Install CD's]

I am trying to create an unattended install that uses multiple CD's. I created a DVD for it, then I realized this computer doesn't have a DVD drive... How do I make it use multiple CD's?

[Windows Components]

What components are you believeing you need to add or remove after installing those applications? and why not use the .sif?

http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t35634.html

I remove MSN Explorer, and add P2P & UPnP.

I'm doing it through this method because I use nlite to make the install and if I were to add the lines in in the .sif it would get removed the next time. This way next time I can't forget to add the install to it.

[Windows Components]

Anyone?

[Windows Components]

I am trying to setup my computer to automatically install windows components when I reinstall XP. So far I have found these two sites.

Install Windows Components from Command Line - Network Administration & Consulting Services

How to add or remove Windows Components by using Sysocmgr.exe

So I have the control panel setup to run after my applications install themselves (Apps= Windows Installer and .Net 1.1-3.5) with

ECHO
ECHO Installing Windows Components
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %windir%\system32\sysocmgr.exe /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:%systemdrive%\install\sysoc.inf /r /q

The only problem is I can not figure out what to put into the sysoc.inf file and know what components it relates to. So this is what is in that file

[Components]

[NetOptionalComponents]

And I can't find a list to relate to what programs I want installed.

[Media Player having issues]

for some reason after i reinstalled WMP will only add 800 some of my songs, i have over 4000. I would think that maybe i had some hard drive corruption except for the fact that Winamp finds and plays them all. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but i can't figure it out and i need some help.

[registry settings]

im making a CD and the directions on how to add registry items seems to be gone from the site. SO im using a batch command to install my programs and im woundering how to add .reg items to it.

[gateway windows XP home killing me]

So my dad bought a gateway computer a while back and after my brother and sister destroyed it with spyware and viruses i took most of the parts picked up a case, PSU, and mobo and built them a decent computer.

Well last week the hard drive died (it was a crappy one any ways) and i replaced it with a nice 200GB WD SATA. Well now i have to install windows again with out having to use the orig gateway XP install CD. So i borrowed a coppy of XP home from a friend and ripped what i needed from it and set up a unattended install. Well the product key that gateway provided wasn't valid with the real version of XP and im stuck.

I have a valid key so i don't want to go and find one on the net to use, but i really need this computer working (im tired of them using my nice box). I called MS they told me to call gateway, gateway told me to call MS. So im woundering if you guys have something that i could do, because if i don't get this solved soon im going to call up gateway and microsoft at the same time and then let them have it.

-Ready to kill

[Wierd Read Only Problem]

Okay, sorry it took me so long to post a reply

[Wierd Read Only Problem]

the problem is that people on my comp lower than administrator can not add files to those folders. Heres a pic of what it looks like

[Wierd Read Only Problem]

ok, i posted before that i couldn't clear the read only attribute on one of my hard drives. Well iwas just checking and i realized the for some reason all of my folers are marked with the read only attribute and i can not clear it. There has to be some simple explination for this.

[read only attribute cannot be cleared]

Well dress me up, spank me, and call me marry. For some reason now i can rip Cd's there. It wouldn't let me do it before...

[read only attribute cannot be cleared]

the folders inside are read only, but the files are not. The problem is if i want to rip a CD into My Music I can't.

[read only attribute cannot be cleared]

Ok, for some reason my folders My Music and Videos (these are the only folders on my third hard drive) are set to read only, when i go to clear the read only attribute it says apply to sub folders and files, yes, applying settings. The when i go back and check to make sure that its not read only it is, the words Read Only are greyed out. I have done google searches like mad for the last 4 days and have come up with nothing, so could some one please help me.

[SATA driver problem]

ok, so forget the makecab utility. Ane every thing is configured correctly. I think the problem may of been with the drivers i was using. I got newer drivers off Intels site and i think that may do the trick.

[SATA driver problem]

Ok, i tried to slipstream my SATA drivers into a windows install using the guide rasken wrote here. I don't know how to use the CAB Utilitiy he was talking about, I did a google search for it and came up with a old Widows Cab Utility from 1997. After fooling around with it i gave up and just put the drivers into the /i386/ directory, well when i tried to start the install to see if it detected the drivers and used them properly i get a can not find file iaStor.sys & si3114r.sys. Can anyone either tell me how to use the utility or where to place those files so it will work.

Edit: Forgot my hardware

Gigabyte 8knxp Rev 1.0, using the Intel SATA controller (i put the Silicon Image one in for good measure), Windows XP Pro Academic, & Western Digital 80GB SATA.