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Thanks a lot Kenshin, that was the problem. I'm still having a problem though. I have 3 partitions on the drive, but I can't seem to get the third one to format. It keeps freezing at 10% and slowing windows to a crawl. I'm going to try to fix it in a bit, but if anyone has a suggestion, please let me know. Thanks again

Thank you, I'll use Nlite to be sure, and I'll just go ahead and put SP2 on it. Hopefully that will work. (I thought the CD already had at least SP1a, but maybe not...hopefully not)

Hello, I didn't have a clue what to type in to search for a problem like mine, so I'm posting a new topic. Here's my problem. I bought a new Maxtor 6L300R0 300GB harddrive. In the BIOS, this harddrive is recognized as 300.1GB. I got into Windows XP, and began partitioning and formatting the harddrive into 3 parts. I formatted them all as NTFS. I then disconnected my primary harddrive, made the 300GB the master, and continued to install Windows XP. When setup reached the point of selecting a partition, there was only one choice, and it was 131GB. So I quit setup and went back into windows. I deleted the partitions, I tried it with just one big 300GB, and I've tried repartitions with no formats etc. Nothing seems to be working. Is there anything special I have to do? Something that I'm missing maybe? I thought I might could use Norton Ghost and ghost the drive I'm using over to a single partition on that drive, and maybe Norton would recognize the partitions correctly. I also heard that if I install windows on the 131GB drive it sees, that I can go into windows afterward and format the rest of the 300 from there, but I didn't want to waste the time of setting up windows to find that it really only thinks it has 131GB. Thanks for any help, I need it badly. Stephen

Well, my CD-ROM's are working fine now, but I still am not able to make the quick launch bar already appear on first bootup after installing windows. I did exactly what I was told (only i used "EnableQLaunch.reg") as my file name. I don't know if it works this way, but I also ran the registry file after entering windows, and then rebooted and still nothing happened. It's not really that important as enabling it only takes a couple of seconds, but it would just be cool to have it work the way I hear it's supposed to. And I only use Nero as well, no Roxio. MasterMind

Haha! It worked!! That is so awesome, and not too hard to change on my cd either. I checked what you said, there are a few other things about the cd drives, but there is no "upperfilters"...So I deleted lower class, rebooted, and viola! there are my drives. That is quite cool, now if I could just get that quicklaunch working as DBarras told me how to do it. Thanks Bacd, you have been a great help. MasterMind

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I was just looking in the device manager, and I also found this. "Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged (Code 19)". I guess I could go find the drivers for those two and try to add them to the install, but I did this on two different computers to see how it worked, (one on a virtual machine, one on a real HDD), and it does the same thing on both, so just getting those two drivers would only help me if I was going to use the CD for this one computer. Thanks for that quicklaunch answer. I'll try that, seems really close to one I've tried before, but maybe I was doing something wrong. And thanks Godan, another fast reply. I will look into all that. I do have registry tweaks. I'll double check. MasterMind I checked the registry tweaks file. I don't see anything that would cause a problem with deleting drivers. Only things like the language bar, the windows tour, and several other things. Also in the managment section, the drives are not listed at all.

Hey, I did my unattended XP cd, of XP PRO Corporate Edition. I slipstreamed SP2, and the all the updates as of March 2005 (Thanks to RyanVM). Everything goes well on the install and it enters windows for the first time, runs my silent installations and cleanup processes and ends. Then I restart the computer and enter back into windows, and the CD-ROM drives (there are 2 in this particular PC) are both gone. I went to "add hardware," and it says "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device." Well, I know it's working because I installed XP with it. I also got this problem when using VMWare, but I let it go thinking it might be something that the virtual machine just normally does. I tried searching the forums, but I don't really know what to "call" this problem. So I couldn't find anything on it. Thanks for any help. I'd really like to get this fixed without reinstalling drivers everytime I load XP. Also, I searched all over and found several different ways to enable the windows quicklaunch bar on install, but I wasn't successful with any of them. Does anyone know a sure way of making it work? (I've given up). MasterMind