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From my exerience you want one drive with your widows on, One drive with your installs and documents (together as this drive will get fragmented alot due to use of the files) and another drive for page file (make sure this is your heighest performance drive). I have: 160gb Sata : 2 Partitions C:\ D:\ with C: for operating system and D:\ for random stuff, mainly my UA system files for the CD's 36GB Raptor Sata disk F:\ Backup + docs, G:\Pagefile E:\ Installs.

X-Pro 460 with 120mm fan I have a cooler master with 4* Ystech Silent fans.

Could well be, http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/downloads.htm try the download on the bottom, dont think my winnt.sif makes my resolution work either and I have Nvidea drivers slipstreamed. Also when you install drivers on a normal setup and you reboot, i know my nvidea ones go back to 800*600 - so that makes me think it could be the drivers. Ill look into the drivers to see if there is a default resolution setting somewhere.

Well I cant really see the advantage to that other than not having so much code in the command in runoncex.cmd - which I cant see as being a major problem. but suggestions always welcome

Oh Poop just after I decided to test myself lol, such a pain cus i got to open up my pc - push in fdisk floppy and format the E drive on the virtual PC etc.. etc.. ok thanks, will try that after but I can see why it would be like that /OT You heard about sof3 nologic ?

Ok, I know perfect Disk 6 is mentioned around here but I only have version 5, I tried installing it myself on Vm Machine, but it didnt install. I found a readme.txt in the extracted setup.exe which explain unattended installs. I have to use the msiexec syntax, can this be used with RunonceEx? REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "Perfect Disk + Update" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\Applications\perfectdisk\perfectdisk.exe /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\install\Applications\perfectdisk\msiexec /i Perfectdisk.msi /q ALLUSERS=1 ADDLOCAL="PDEngine,HelpFiles,GUI,DesktopIcon" INSTALL_DESKTOP_ICON=1" /f Is this code alright? Never too sure on things when there are too many " lying about. P.S Perfectdisk.exe is just a self extracting archieve.

I did the above and everything installs perfectly

Hmmm ok here goes, Its nice having examples of each program like you have now, where you can select the program and view how to install it silently. But for updating purpouses, and to force people to do more for themselves - would it maybe be a good idea to do it this way: Tell the reader to try and findout which installer the app he wants to use uses, then tell them to find out the switches to this installer: Wise installer: /s Silently installs Blah And then have a link to USSF.exe which is a very helpfull tool. The reason I would think this would be a good way of doing the Appinstall section is because some programes, like kerio are outdated on the site and dont use the same method anymore, and ive only just found out about the installer information and the USSF today. Most programs I feel are straight forward and use switches and I could have done myself with the USSF tool and list of switches each installer uses. The only exception would be Firefox + extensions (thanks to Simonsays and Astalavista btw and nero. Anyway thats just my 2p, I do think the guide is brilliantly wrote though - certainly easy to understand but alot of info to intake.

The dialog box would have its own process name then? Edit, yes its steaminstall.exe Ok, but would I have to use some sort of wait/sleep so that it doesnt kill the install before its meant to be?

Steam is a wise installer, so does indeed install silently with the /s install switch. However, it still asks for the reboot, how can I stop it from asking this? From searching I am under the impression that Wise installer does not have a switch to prevent this, right?

You can change the folder names, but aslong as it is correctly pointed to in the winnt.sif For instance: If you rename the folder to sata, You would have Drivers (folder) | --- Sata (folder) | | | --- (all the files) | Say that above is your structure, then in winnt.sif it would be drivers/sata if you were to create it in another folder, you have to add the folder to the Pnp line, as windows wont search sub directories. Just remember the golden rule - always name the folder with the .inf file in it. example: You add another directory: Drivers (folder) | --- Sata (folder) | | | --- Test (folder) | | | --- (all the files) | Then the Pnp line is winnt.sif would become drivers/sata/test For the folder setup, try and keep to a minimal sub directory structure, as the more you have the bigger your cd will become (yes not much i know) and is also less confusing.

Comon man, stop being lazy and find out for yourself. Im nothing compared to some of the people on here, but I can fully understand the unattended section of MSFN. The system drive is the "$1" folder on your cd, please read, then re-read the site. It cant be explained anymore clearly I appreciate thier is alot of info on the site, I found it hard to digest at first - but if you read before you attempt to do any CD making, then it becomes alot easier. Also if you have to keep asking questions (that have been already asked countless of times) then its going to slow you down waiting for responses - and people wont answer because they cant be bothered, as they think you cant be bothered to use the search button. Anyway: Learn the OEM distribution folders: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/oemfolders.htm Understand why they use the location variables %Systemdrive% etc, and where each folder gets copied to on installation. RunonceEx: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/runonceex.htm its just like batch files, but with different syntax to call the instaltion folders. To add a program you just copy another program code, make sure you increase the count by 1 (so it runs in an order) and make sure you call the right install file and switches.

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Dont even touch the FX range, they are not even DirectX 9 compatible which they advertise. I would have thought an ATi Radion 9600/9700 would be nice for you, and they dont cost an arm and a limb. Mind you my Idea of an arm and a limb may be different to yours as I paid £320 for my 6800GT lol.

So you want to install from the EXTERNAL DRIVE, to a static internal drive? Read my post, just get a boot able floppy and browse to the external drive, locate the winnt.exe and execute it in the i386 folder and follow the instructions. Floppy boot image: ftp://ftp.fluidlight.com/pub/nospin_files/wxpboot.exe

He has already said on acouple of occasions, that his bios supports boot from USB

Hi, I know something that is very similar and free, called mygosumenu. Its used for menus, where you can click one heading and reveal links which belong to that heading. Should be easy to modify by changing the CSS so that you can make it comform to your needs. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&clien...nG=Search&meta=

You would need to have it on the Hard disk obviously, and find out what drive letter is assigned to your USB hard disk. Then get a boot disk, and navigate to your USB hard drive, and then execute winnt.exe in the I386 folder.

Ships far out at see would be absolutly fine, and even wouldnt notice the thing even happening, thats because it takes time to even build up. When it first starts it may be the size of a 2cm ripple. So it depends how far out they were, if they were anchored near shore then they might have got highly damaged/ rolled over/sunk.

There isnt such thing as better memory for gaming. My ADATA pc3200 will technically perform the same as those Ballistix would as they are the same speed, if used on the same system (yes you may get better SiSoft Sandra scores - but this would not be noticable in actual everyday and gaming use). Memory types come into thier own with overclocking (which will improve your gaming performance as your machine is faster), my ADATA falls over when slightly overclocked and the reason the Ballistix are better is because you can overclock it whilst still maintaining tigher RAM timings and you can also put more Volts through them.

If you arent British you proabably wont understand this spray

Sorry, thought you had to because of : http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/gettingstarted.htm

Errrr , in order to use unattended XP cd's you need to have service pack 2, and DirectX 9.0c comes already integrated into SP2

I used RoboForm when I used to use MyIE2, but that was in the past and yeah it is very good.

aha haa I see, like the \'s within the IE 5.0 CSS box model hack.