88guy

Thanks for the above response - I had actually figured out what I was doing wrong before I came back and read this.... I was, indeed, going back........I should read some documentation. I chose "ALL" and went through then sequentially. Now, if I can just get the darned thing to load SATA drivers in the intial boot routine.... It's installing in VMware, now and it SEEMS to be working "better"; oddly, thus far it skipped asking me for any regional settings (which it should) but it did ask for a CD key again! I don't know if this is because it's in VMware, or what..... I absolutely entered the CD key in the build - argh. Okay - it installed and pretty much everything worked. It seems like there are too many hotfixes (about 113 meg) given that I downloaded and included some package ("Ryan's Package" - or something). It does have Service Pack 3, the username and all of that fairly inconsequential stuff is correct. Would the fact that this is VMware cause it to prompt me for the CD key? I absolutely entered the key in the automated install thing...

About 3 weeks ago I downloaded nLite and, without reading any documentation (really), I managed to build a Windows XP CD with an unattended installation and some drivers for my favorite desktop computer. It all worked fine and it was very intuitive. So, tonight I started investigating how I would go about slipstreaming service pack 3, SATA drivers, and hotfixes. Right now, the aforementioned add-ons are the least of my worries; I absolutely cannot get nLite to save any of the unattended information nor my drivers - which worked perfectly a couple of weeks ago. Oddly, it does slipstream service pack 3. But the unattended stuff just doesn't work. By the way, I am not building from a CD which has been previously "diddled" with - this is the same, virgin XP install disc which I successfully modified a few weeks ago. I wasted about 6 CDs...finally installed VMware to test the ISOs. I know this is terribly general, but does anyone have a clue as to why this is not working? The program is pretty straightforward. I choose an option, make some change, hit "back", go to the next option, etc. - eventually I build the ISO and the info is lost.... Any advice would be appreciated.