ceehoppy

Well, of the limited choices that presented during setup of USB_Multiboot, I probably made the wrong choices (repeatedly) for what I was attempting to do. Live & learn. I'll revisit this utility when I have much more free time on my hands.

Well I ran nLite again (same process as the first 'last session.ini'), this time I created an iso & ran it in Virtual Box- it worked fine. I noticed that the VB install had the F8 eula agreement- & the installer on the usb multiboot version did not. (it's amazing what you can miss when it's "only" 2:00 AM). I checked & the usb tool changed (at least) winnt.sif & who knows what else- even though I selected not to change anything during creation of the usb installation files. So I purchased a compatible sony usb optical drive & burned a cd- that install worked fine. So my problem wasn't an nLite fault at all. I'll try WinSetupFromUsb later & see how that works. It's possible that I didn't use the Usb_Multiboot_10 correctly- or it was buggy when combined with nlite. (I had liked it because it had an option in boot.ini on usb drive that correctly selected the second hard drive on my pc to continue install) many thanks

My cd is "windows genuine advantage kit for windows XP professional" - purchased from microsoft direct. On that last build one thing I did deliberately was to remove the XP Tour- & on boot up one of the first things that popped up was- you guessed it- the XP tour. It acts as if nLite or the usb tool keeps loading a "bad previous session" , but for the life of me I don't understand how. I can manually start most services- I assume they are missing the service or event that starts them automatically. i'll try changing the auto/man settings next build.

I have a problem that has me stumped. The pc is a Sony VGN-UX280 micro pc that has Intel 945GMS/ICH7 chipset with a native IDE drive. What I'm attempting to do is a simple XP install to a sata drive connected to a Silicon Image MPX-3132 pci-e card. I copied XP pro sp2 retail cd to hdd on a laptop (also running XP pro sp3). I installed nLite 1.4.9.1 & aimed it at XP source files. I added the sata card textmode driver & ran nLite. Afterwards I used USB_Multiboot_10 to transfer setup files to a bootable usb flash drive (the target pc has no optical drive.) Setup finds the sata drive & everything seems to install OK. When I boot to the desktop on sata drive I have plain blue wallpaper& find that many normal XP functions don't work- msconfig, disk manager, defragger, etc. I checked services & only 3 are started- PnP, RPC, & Windows Audio. All other "automatic" services are not started. several services ( such as COM+ & task scheduler) aren't even listed. Here's the .ini- Last Session1.ini I haven't been able to "fix" this install so I tried several times to rebuild & reinstall. I removed & reinstalled nLite. Everytime I used a fresh copy of the XP retail cd. I never load the previous session. I tried integrating SP3. I tried a different usb tool (Novicorp's WinToFlash). Everytime I format the target drive. This last time I changed a bunch of options to see if it made any difference. Last Session2.ini It doesn't matter if I install to the ide or sata drive- I always see the same blue desktop & "no" running services. I tested the usb tool by loading the XP cd direct to flash drive & installing to the ide drive. That worked correctly- I had XP's stock "hillside" wallpaper & all services/functions worked OK. It seems that anytime I run nLite I end up with the same flawed XP install. Any ideas on what I'm overlooking? Thanks