LordNocon

Hi, I have created a XP + SP2 + .sif CD that works perfectly fine (most of the time) using the guide and forums available here. Thanks! However, when I wanted to use that CD (which did its job perfectly so far) on my own system, I was kind of stumped. My system uses SATA drives in RAID 0, and since those drivers aren't integrated on the CD, I used a floppy (with the F6 method) to make the install see my drives. Here's what happens: PC boots from the CD I press F6 I load up the drivers from the floppy Install continues up until the partition-selection-part, which I specified in winnt.sif I'd do myself I select a partition to install on, and a filesystem setup formats the partition setup wants to copy the files from the floppy to the hard disk. problem, it says it can't find the files on the floppy and that while it read them without error not 5 minutes ago! I don't think there's an error in the winnt.sif, since it worked fine on (a lot of) computers with regular hard drives. I also think the slipstreaming of SP2 went correct, as, when I remove the winnt.sif entirely, install succeeds completely. I can post the winnt.sif here if anyone wants it, but, as stated, I really don't think the problem lies there. I tried with 4 different floppies, each time the first read of the files went perfect, the second time it says it couldn't find them. Some extra info: the controller is the Intel 81802ER (the one on the Intel 875P chipset). The drives are in raid 0. There's nothing wrong with the drives, the controller or the array.

Did you use the correct settings for the CD/DVD to be bootable, as specified here?