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The DVDs came with the laptop. I have heard that if you want to reinstall to factory settings that it would be faster to have them ona seperate partition. I do understand if it crashes all is a waste. Thanks all

hello everyone, Does anyone know how to make a recovery partition on a hard drive using 2 Recovery DVDs. What I want to do is take the 2 DVDs I have and partition about 10 GB of my HDD to make it bootable so I won't have to deal with inserting a DVD and swapping it out. If I succeed in making a recovery drive, how do I make it bootable from 2 DVDs and by pressing f10 or something? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Thanks jaclaz, I'll check it out and see if I come up with something.

Kubos, I've been gone for awhile but I just tried editing the autoexec.bat file and I got the same error.

jaclaz, I tried both and still no luck. I'm getting the exact message. I can't find what the problem is. Anyone have an idea what could be causing this.

Thanks jaclaz, I'll it out and see.

I followed flyakites guide and got my Multiboot/Unatteded DVD workng with WIN98SE, WIN2K, 2K3Server, XP Home, Tablet, MCE and XP PRO. Great guide flyakites, everything works just great. The only problem I got is trying to add WINME. I've serched and can't seem to get it to work at all. My setup is as below and I am using CDShell 2106. AIO-DVD\WIN98 AIO-DVD\WINME AIO-DVD\SETUP\XP\PRO (HOME, TBLT, WMCE, W2K and W2K3) AIO-DVD\Setup98.IMA AIO-DVD\ME.IMA I am VMWare ad it starts to load the Image but then all I get this message: Please wait while setup initializes. Scanning system registry.... Cannot create a temporary directory. If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive, you will need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up Windows. A:\ Any assistance is very appreciated

OK thanks for the reply. I'm going to ry that.

These are original programs that with xp pro cd. I know the problem is the winnt file because I reinstalled my xp pro slipstreamed with sp2 and it installed like it should. Now, when I do it unattended, a lot programs come up missing.

someone take a look at WINNT.sif and see why it's preventing Outlook Express, WM9 and a couple of other programs from installing. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* UnattendSwitch="yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="XXXXXXX" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="X. XXXXXXX" OrgName="XXXXXXX" ComputerName=XXXXXXXXXX [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=60 AutoConfirm=1 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=757 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=17,1 [identification] JoinWorkgroup=XXXXXX [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off AutoUpdate=off OEAccess=On

I just finished testing my xp pro slipstream with sp2 cd without the unattended WINNT file and everything went great. Outlook Express got installed, which means my problem lies within my unattended WINNT.SIF file. Anyone can please take a look at it and give me a little help with it, I would very much appreciate it. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* UnattendSwitch="yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="XXXXXXX" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="X. XXXXXXX" OrgName="XXXXXXX" ComputerName=XXXXXXXXXX [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=60 AutoConfirm=1 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=757 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=17,1 [identification] JoinWorkgroup=XXXXXX [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off AutoUpdate=off OEAccess=On

I'm slipstreaming it manually, not using any programs. I've tried to install the origanal xp pro in VMWARE and everything installs good but after I slipstream SP2 is when Outlook Express doesn't install. Here is a copy of WINNT unattend file. Any suggestions would be appreciated. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* UnattendSwitch="yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="XXXXXXX" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="X. XXXXXXX" OrgName="XXXXXXX" ComputerName=XXXXXXXXXX [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=60 AutoConfirm=1 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=757 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=17,1 [identification] JoinWorkgroup=XXXXXX [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off AutoUpdate=off OEAccess=On

Hi every1, Hopefully someone can helpme ouy with this problem I've been trying to fix for days now. I created an unattended win xp pro cd slipstreeamed with sp2 and hotfixes. It installs great with no problem on VMWARE. The problem is outlook express doesn't get installed for some reason. If anyone has had this problen or someone can give me a little help. It will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks oneless, downloaded after i disabled NIS.

Link to download WPI_3.6.1.rar is dead, takes me to http://www.google.com/. someone please help me.