RyanVM

I think I found out what driver it is on Promise's site. It appears to be from their new SATAII TX Series. @ laurens - please send me a zip of your drivers still.

@ Bashrat - He's posted about his controller before. From what I can tell, it actually is a different controller from any I've seen elsewhere. It's on the MSI K8T Neo2-FIR. I downloaded the drivers (the 98/ME ones as the XP ones seem to be MIA from their site) and it was device IDs I hadn't seen before. It's probably something that should go into the pack at some point. @ laurens - Read the notes at the bottom of GreenMachine's page. That tells you how to find the info for your drivers. EDIT: @ laurens - would you mind zipping up your Promise 579 drivers and emailing them to me? ryanvm@gmail.com

Unfortunately, a clean install pretty much is the only way. There are some things you can test before actually formatting, though. You can always burn your ISO to a CDRW and boot from it to make sure your drives are detected if, for example, you're testing your RAID/SATA drivers. Otherwise, I personally have a cheapo 8GB hard drive that I got for like $10 somewhere once that I use as a test drive. Just unplug your main hard drive and plug that one into the main IDE channel and test away on it. When you're done, you can just unplug that drive and plug in your normal hard drive again.

Unless there's some way to "test it out" that I don't know, it's really annoying & time-consuming to re-install Windows just to test something small like that. People here actually have tried stuff before, so advice could be more useful in this case... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx Free 45 day trial. Takes 1-2 hours running in the background to test if a CD is working or not.

Why not just test it out in VirtualPC rather than posting here and waiting for an answer? That being said, ref.chm from the Windows XP SP2 Deployment Tools says that those are the proper settings.

I don't recall VirtualPC using anything other than virtual hardware ever, and I was playing with VirtualPC about three years ago already.

, that's actually kinda funny . Not that it helps you much, but it works fine in VirtualPC.

Other than being 20MB bigger

I'm not sure if you can call it from cmdlines.txt or not, since it runs an MSI file. You might actually be OK, though, since it is calling msiexec. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work, though, and you had to run it from RunOnceEx or GuiRunOnce. Yes, it runs switchless.

Does Windows setup actually extract them in that order, though?

ryanvm, check out my post: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...20entry180255 it details how to change settings for default scan options, scheduled scans, and Live Update settings. it's not an elegant .msi integrated solution, but it works. -joe I don't see a setting for Express mode in your post, which is the setting I'm looking for. I'm pretty sure that those settings are controlled in the Settings.LiveUpdate files and not in the registry. Thanks anyway, though.

I can't confirm. I run wscript56.exe (my name for it ) from cmdlines.txt with the same switches and the file versions show build 8825. Double check your spelling to make sure the exe is named like you think it is. EDIT: For the record, these are the file versions you should be having: Date Version Size File name ------------------------------------------------ 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 98,304 cscript.exe 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 28,672 dispex.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 466,944 jscript.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 151,552 scrobj.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 151,552 scrrun.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 438,272 vbscript.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 114,688 wscript.exe 26-Jun-2001 8,847 wscript.hlp 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 28,672 wshcon.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 65,536 wshext.dll 09-Aug-2004 5.6.0.8825 98,304 wshom.ocx

I was just going to respond to your post saying that I was unable to reproduce now that I've "come into" a copy of 9.0.1.1000 B). It shows scan engine 1.2.0.13 here on a clean (read: fresh XP install in VirtualPC with no AV software prior) install here. Apparently it does for you too, though .

Good info to have - thanks! That definitely explains why 5000000 helped so much. I suppose if I were really bored, I'd see how 10000000 worked, but not now. I've got some other stuff on my plate to keep my busy

Actually, it sounds like you slipstreamed over top of an upgrade version (or at least your txtsetup.sif thought it was an upgrade version).

For that, you'll have to ask Bashrat. Or download it and find out.

He's absolutley correct. You need to do the slipstream from a "virgin" XP cd. It can't be a CD that already had SP1 integrated into it. For some reason if you try to slipstream on a source that had SP1 integrated (or a few updates integrated) then that corrupt error occurs. Paul Not always. I've successfully slipstreamed SP2 onto an XP CD with SP1a integrated. What I wonder is if it has to do with being factory slipstreamed vs. manually slipstreamed, as the one I used was factory slipstreamed.

You're wrong.

That won't work. You can't use F6 when OEMPreinstall=Yes is in winnt.sif. Why not use Bashrat's driver pack?

Did you even bother to search? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...hl=sp1+hotfixes

yes, we're all aware of VirtualPC and VMWare.

The point of that number isn't to increase compression, but to speedup decompression. Using the default value, it can take a long time to decompress files from there (setup will just "hang" from time to time). FolderSizeThreshold=5000000 made a HUGE difference.

You'd have to do that at t12 so that the administrator account gets the file copied over when it's created.

I use it for the extra two IDE channels, not for RAID.

No, I think that folder's created by default.