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Thanks Ponch for your reply & link, much appreciated!! The list of files & folders are as follows: Folders: I386 RCD_CSTM SONY SUPPORT VAIO VALUEADD Files: AUTORUN.EXE (Sony Application) AUTORUN.INF (Setup information) RDVD1 SONY2.PAC SONY.I01 SONY.I02 SONY.I03 SONY.IMG SONY.PAC SONYDNT.IMG WIN51 WIN51IP WIN51IP.SP2 WINBOM.INI When I copied all the folders & files to an empty folder for nLite to source, it would not load the files as previously mentioned. I then tried the following....intergrating two sets of I386 folders together......but not sure if it will work; I used a friend's XP Home Ed CD & copied those files to the source folder, replacing the OEMBIOS files etc so that my CD Key could be used. I also then added all the files that were not on his I386 folder to the new source folder (my Sony disc contains XP Pro). But I do not have a Hotfix folder ....does this matter? I tried to load this & nLite worked fine, so I am guessing that there must be something missing from within the Sony I386 folder that stops nLite from loading the source folder. I went through the whole process of loading & finally burn an iso to a cd-r (it was just under 700mb). The end result appears to be a good copy of XP but I have not tried loading as yet (although I did insert it into my DVD drive & it did not run auto set-up? Don't know why as yet. I have been following a 'Clean Install Guide written by William Warby based on a Sony Vaio VGX-XL201 media centre PC. This has given me a lot of info. I will try to load my 'new' XP disc early next week & let you know how it goes (weekend will be too busy for me). ANy further info you may have would be appreciated. Thanks & regards John

Hi everyone, I a new to nLite & have a few questions. I am trying to build a Clean Install DVD from my Sony Vaio XP Pro Recovery disc. I keep getting the following information message; "Make sure that the selected folder or drive contains the'i386' or 'AMD64' directory and proper Windows installation files. nLite is for a pre-install environment only, meaning that it cannot modify an existing Windows installation. An easy way is to insert your Windows installation CD and select your CD drive. Never copy the iles directly to a partition root, create an empty folder first." I click OK, confirm that I have the correct source folder but it the same message just keeps appearing & will not load the source files......any ideas why? I have tried loading from my DVD drive, from 'copied' files in a new folder, & also from the installed i386 windows folder, but each time I still get the same message. Any info would be appreciated, thanks in advance John