[Integration of Intel's SATA AHCI and RAID drivers]

Hey Fernando 1

I followed your instructions and it worked the first time

thank You very much for this

icy

[Windows Setup: Hangs on restart]

Hey melissah

As You run a Mac Os, i think windows is not going to restart as it is in an Mac OS environment

Install this windows onto a normal pc,when the installation is done,make an image

and copy it onto your Mac, if your lucky it will boot or,

buy a PC

icy

[How to Manual]

I see a lot of members having problems, as I used to have,

so i decided to make a small manual how I do it.

This is not the usual way to do it , but i am not usual, it just works fine for me

icy

PS if I make mistakes, tell me

If you can add good tips,tell me, i'll add them

MANUAL

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This manual consist of

- setting up the system to test a Nlited windows

Instead of using virtual machine software like WMWare Workstation or

Microsoft VM , i use Bootit Ng with an EMBR partition,

- Bootit Ng,

Info http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm*

Manual http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitng.pdf.

when an EMBR partition is installed, then You get 16 active partitions,

ideal for setting up multiple Operating Systems and testing Nlite compilations

ATTENTION, do not use other partition software than Bootit Ng to PARTITION

An EMBR partition is NOT CPMPATIBLE with other partition software

PS You can use other software as long as You DO NOT PARTITION,

ex change drive letters

format

transform fat into ntfs or vice versa

etc

- How to set up Bootit Ng on the system

see bootit.pdf, install Bootit Ng for the first time

To work easely, you should have at least a HD with a capacity of 500 GB

in order no to be limited to 4 partitions,make a small EMBR 8MB partition ,

then you get 16 partitions minus 1 for the EMBR partition

If you have already a windows installed and the EMBR partition

does not install, then you got a problem ,the only solution is to backup

your data,reformat the primary partition ,install an EMBR partition

then install an OS

- How to use the partitions

*First partition gets the EMBR and Bootit Ng software

min capacity . 8MB, not GB

*Second partition,make a 30 a 50 GB partition

SET Third & Fourth partition up now,see below

WHEN done,delete this second partition

NOW in this empty space you can put up up to 13 OS

For Windows 2000 use 2GB

For XP use 3 GB

For Vista use 6 GB

goto - How to Set up the partitions

*Third partition serves

_for the pagefile ,pagefile.sys, of all windows

the pagefile can be set as follows:

Push Winkey & M

Rightclic mouse on "My Computer" icon

Push Proporties

Push Advanced

Push Performance Settings

Push Advanced

Push Change

Select drive to put the new pagefile.sys onto

Select Custom Size

Size is a multiple of 1023, 2046,3069,4092, i use 3069

Set Initial Size = Maximum Size

Set the size of the pagefile.sys on all the other visible drives to 0

Push ok 3 times until menu is closed

_for the tempory files of all windows,

the tempory files can be set as follows:

Push Winkey & M

Rightclic mouse on "My Computer" icon

Push Proporties

Push Advanced

Push Environment Variables

Push User Variables for Administrator

Change Variable Value

Push ok

Move sidebar User Variables co that you see Temp & Tmp

Change both

Push ok untill you leave the menu

_For the Temporary Internet Files of all Windows

Push Winkey & M

Rightclic mouse on "Internet Explorer" icon

Push Proporties

Push Settings

Push Move Folder

Choose drive

Push OK

_For the Temporary Directories used by all programs of all Windows

Most of the diskfragmentation is now localised onto this disk

How To defragment it: just use Bootit Ng to format this partition at bootup,

See bootit.pdf how to

PS If the partition for some reason doesn't match the driveletter,

you can change the driveletter with diskmgmt.msc ,program located in

the system32 directory

so SET UP a 10 a 15 GB Third partition

*Forth Partition ,takes all the rest as logical to create logical drives

See bootit.pdf how to

- Make 1 logical drive +- 30GB

All windows OS, be it Windows 2000,XP,Vista,Nlited or Vlited can use

99% of the programs installed on this logical drive.

There are four possibelities

- once a program is installed,it works for all windows

- idem , but you need to insert the registerykey

or validate via internet

- you can install it onto the same directory and overwrite it each time,

for every installed OS, it will work in all window OS

- You need to install in a separatedly directory for each OS,

This happens in less than 1% of the cases

Use the free space to make more logical drives to store data onto

- How to Set up the partitions

Bootmenu

push maintenance

push partition work

put cursor onto non assigned diskspace

fill in name , Bootit ??

fill in filesystem make first an 223 Bootit EMBRM partition,

fill in capacity , min capacity 8MB is ok

fill in clustersize, auto is ok, disk gets formatted

same procedure for second, but a Fat32 or NTFS partition,capacity 30 a 50 GB

same procedure for third, but a Fat32 or NTFS partition,capacity 10 a 15 GB

same procedure for fourth, but a logical partition,capacity all the rest

put cursor onto logical partition

same procedure as above to create first logical disk

capacity 30 a 40 GB to store programs

same procedure to create more logical disks

- How to install an OS See bootit.pdf

But !!! , how I do it

Bootmenu

push maintenance

push Bootmenu

select HD0 , 0 = first entry

do not fill the other 3 enties

push fill , select a partition that is formatted

push identity fill in a name

push Boot , make same selection as push fill

push reboot

select the partition = identity to install the OS

You get an error, no boot push a key

You get an message to put a boot cd

After inserting the cd ,push a key

computer restarts

Push a key,after the message push a key to boot from Cd displays

the cd boots into the setup of windows

If your OS installs correctly then insert the Bootit Ng cd

restart to restore the Bootit Ng bootmenu

THIS IS NECESSARY as windows after each install puts his own bootmenu

When back in the Ng bootmenu

push maintenance

push Bootmenu

select HD0 , 1 = second entry

push fill , select logical

select HD0 , 2 = third entry

push fill select the partition onto wich pagefile.sys & temp f1les have to come

push reboot ,

after rebooting all the programs & data stored onto te logical drives will

be acessible

the pagefile.sys & temp f1les can be moved to, see third partition above

PS If a partition for some reason doesn't match the driveletter,

you can change the driveletter with diskmgmt.msc ,program located in

the system32 directory

If your OS does not installs correctly then insert the Bootit Ng cd

restart to restore the Bootit Ng bootmenu

restart

push maintenance

push partition work

reformat

reboot into a working OS

remake a setup disk & install again

copy an original setupdisk into a directory source_ORG

If You use Windows Media Player 11,slipstream it first,

see http://www.boooggy.org/slipstreamer/ for inf0 and downloads

make a backup of this slipstreamed source as source_ORG_WMP11

Go to the I386 directory, identify your keyboard

(rightclick, proporties and see if correct),

copy your keyboard over KBDUS.DLL, so you will avoid problems

and you can delete all keyboards, yours will stay as KBDUS.DLL

make again a backup of this slipstreamed source in order

to use it again later as source_ORG_WMP11_Keyb

Copy one of the tree as source to use by Nlite

How I use Nlite

In order to operate Microsoft .NET Framework has to be installed,i use v 2.1

Start Nlite

Step 1

select Service packs

select Hotfixes , addons & Update packs

select components

select Unattended

select Options

select Bootable

Install

Service packs

Hotfixes & Update packs

addons if You like, i never install addons as most program, once installed,

do not need to be installed, see above *Forth Partition

components

delete Keyboards , see above KBDUS.DLL

delete all but your Language, if your is English, then delete all as

English Language always stays

delete Directories , they are useless in my opinion, but you can skip those

Unattended if you select this now,no need to install it each time

PS You can copy the serian directly into the first case ,

no need to do it manually

Options idem Unattended

This is the only step You can complete more then one operation

--Bootable iso

Now make an Bootable iso,Nlite creates automaticly WinLite.iso if

you do not change the name

Burn an iso , i use a rewritable DVD and use Ultraiso to burn it

copy Presets in the Nlite directory as Presets_0x into a separate directory

copy your source direcrory as source_0x into a separate directory

0x stands for 01 in step 1, 02 in step 2 etc

Restart windows,use a newly formatted partition to install ,see above how to

if windows does not install in step1, then split the tasks out,

Up to now i never got problems to install in step 1

- install NET Framework,directX, then sounddriver

test to see if driver correctly installed ,if not restart step 0x

- install ata & RAID drivers,test idem above

- install driver to access internet,test idem above

- install driver screen adaptor,test idem above

- install software to burn Cd,

I use the standalone Cheetah DVD Burner, so no need to install

restore Bootit menu, see above

reformat the partition in order to install and test the next step

If all this is corectly then goto next step, untill the end

if not retry step with less eleminations

Step 2

From step 2 on, we eleminate component one by one as it becomes

to difficult to get a working Nlited OS

select components & Bootable

in Applications

Delete all but Charmap,it does not work when copied

wordpad and others can be copied later in the system directory

and they work when copied

Make Bootable iso, see above

Step 2 always works for me , if everything is working, goto step 3

if not

- copy Presets_01 over presets in the Nlite directory

- copy source_01 over the source direcrory

there is no need to do it all over as step 1 was ok

Step 3

select components & Bootable

in Drivers

- do not delete sound controllers,sounddrivers will not install without

- do not delete SCSI/RAID otherwise you will have to push F6 at boot

to install sata & raid drivers

XP sp2, XP sp3, all OS younger then XP have all standard Sata & Raid

drivers included, so do not delete them in order to install your

specific drivers

If Gurgelmeyers unoficial SP5 is installed in Windows2000, then Sata & Raid

are also included

--delete as you wish,from now on it becomes a lot more difficult to get

an Nlited OS working

Make Bootable iso, see above --Bootable iso

if everything is working, goto next step

if not

- copy Presets_0(x-1) over presets in the Nlite directory

- copy source_0(x-1) over the source direcrory

there is no need to do it all over as step 0(x-1) was ok

Restart step

Step 4

select components & Bootable

in Hardware support do not delete

- Your CPU

- Floppy Support if you need this

- Logical Disk Manager = diskmgmt.msc , to change the driveletter

- Multiprocessor support if you have one

- Ports (COM & LTP) if you need serial or parallel ports

- Printer Support

next see above --delete as you wish

Step 5

select components & Bootable

in Multimedia do not delete if you want a minimum of multimedia

- Acm Core Codecs

- ActveX for streaming video

- DirectX , to install Direct X 9 for the sound card

- Intel Indeo codecs

- Windows Media Player

- Windows Media Player 6.4

next see above --delete as you wish

Step 6

select components & Bootable

in Network do not delete

- Internet Explorer if you need IE to surf

- TC/IP version 6 (Future TC/IP)

next see above --delete as you wish

Step 7

select components & Bootable

in Operating System do not delete if needed

- 16 Bit Support

- Command Line Tools

- File System Filter Manager

- Format Drive Support ?

- Help Engine needed for a lot of programs

- Internet Explorer Core if you need IE to surf

- Mdac , delete after services in step 8

- Visual basic 5 Runtime for Visual basic programs

- Visual basic 6 Runtime for Visual basic programs

- Visual basic Scripting Support for Windows

next see above --delete as you wish

Step 8 Operating System & Services

select components & Bootable

in Services I keep

- Beep Driver

- Protected Storage

I think all can be deleted in Services

in Operating System delete now Mdac if you do not need it

next see above --delete as you wish

Step 9 Tweaks

select tweaks & Bootable

make the tweaks

make a Bootable iso & install

fill in logical partition ,see *Forth Partition

fill in partion to store pagefile.sys & temp files,see *Third partition

make an image of the installed windows without drivers,

see How to make a compressed partition image in bootitng.pdf.

Give a name of 6 letters + 2 numbers as bootit works in a dos

environment, start with numer 00 and add 1 for each following

image of the same partition ,i store them onto a logical disk

Install all the drivers , make an image and store it

See which programs are working without installation,see *Forth Partition

Install what not works

Move all tempory files of programs, see *Third partition

Make an image and store it

Tips

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To put new drivers, restore image XX00.IMG ,

install drivers & software see above step 9

To install updates of software restore XX01.IMG the second image

install software see above step 9

to install new software restore the last image,in order

to get a clean windows back,install the soft,make an image

When Windows is corrupted or fragmented,restore the last image,

in order to get a clean windows back

From time to time format at bootup (Bootit Ng) the partition onto wich

pagefile.sys & temp files are stored as this partition will always be

the most fragmented, windows will restore pagefile.sys & temp files

without furter intervention.

Data disk or program disk can be defragmented

or backup all files & directories , format the disk and

restore all files & directories

[more than 150 program addons for nlite]

Hey 5eraph

I am sure you are a crack in using and making addons,

i only use topp programs like Nlite and others, i 'll give you a tip

visit *http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm*, read the manual *http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitng.pdf*

You 'ii be surprised all it can do, espacially in testing Nlite.

i use it for years

icy

[(do I smell?) help, need to slipstream OEM recovery partition]

hey fpsdf

use bootit ng,make an image and you can recover in less tan 5 minutes,

you can even make an hidden partition to boot off

icy

[more than 150 program addons for nlite]

hey 5eraph

Probably from your point of vieuw you might be right,

but is unattended installing of programs better or easyer?

if You have all the same computers, then installing an image takes 2 or 3,

minutes,this is far less then un unattended install takes

Ie8 & others can be installed without backing up an older version

Why all the fuss of making installers as you can do it the simple & direct way

That's my point of vieuw,i respect yours.

icy

[driver.cab error]

Hey gneville

Fernando 1 is right when he says to start with good media.its very important

Windows is so complicated and Nlite is so good in eleminating parts of windows and

there are so many different computer hardware that is is nearly impossible to

get a satifying working Nlited windows the first times.

Try to eleminate a few parts at a time, if it works,elimanate a few more,

untill you get ik as you wish,

it can take you from a few days up to a few months, depending how good you are.

But once you got a good workong Nlited windows,it is easy to update it with the

same settings, as I do.

My iso is 163,116 MB , wmp11 incl,without addons & drivers,framework & directX,

all the programs i need working

icy

[XP ,IE6 ,IE8]

I agree with you johnhc

I always use a untouched source to start

Thank You for your advice

icy

[Remove Components Section.]

Hey Ron475

Do not take out SCSI/Raid drivers & Sound Controllers in driver section

Do not take out Printer Support in Hardware section

The rest You have to try out as it changes from computer to computer

icy

[more than 150 program addons for nlite]

I just saw the Video

Video HowTo: Integrate addons with nLite

There was added

Firefox 5.68 Mb

Klite Codecs 6,2 Mb

Thunderbird 6,36 Mb

Winrar 1,1 Mb

Yahoo Messenger 10,07 Mb

total 29,42 Mb

At the end it was said :

The installation grew by 29,78 MB

It may be easy to integrate addons in the source,but what is the gain

Concerning Sata & Raid drivers,

those are standard integrated in xp SP2 & SP3,and all newer windows OS

If You install Gurgelmeyers unofficial Windows 2000 SP5 , then Sata & Raid drivers

are also integrated in Windows 2000,I installed it like this myself and

no need to push the F6 before installation.

I w' ont install addons or drivers if there are no other benefits than direct integration.

The biggest benefit of Nlite is eleminating the stuff You do not need and also

slimming down the OS, thank You Nuhi

icy

[more than 150 program addons for nlite]

I added an IE8 addon and guess what, it didn't work.

Can You tell me what's the difference in adding an addon or install it directly.

Up to now I am not convinced that there is no surplus in adding programs

as an addon, if you have a good Nlited windows, then you can start again in

minutes to install newer versions or even better program.

But who am i ? , mayby am i totally wrong.

icy

[XP ,IE6 ,IE8]

I just made a new Nlited Windows XP with IE6 SP1 with the same Taskselection, only the updates changed,

Everything runs OK

I thank Nuhi again for the great job he has done

I made another with the same Taskselection,with IE8 as addon this was plenty of faults

My belief is that adding adding programs and drivers into an NLited Windows is not all that easy.

I use other methods than most of the Nlite Users .

I see that a lot of users got a lot of problems.

My method does work ,but i agree that , to get a working Nlited Windows it takes

a lot of time.

If I have enough feedback, i will write a manual

icy

[My third compilation]

I made My third compilation in a year

XP Corporate Sp3

no drivers included, 163184640 bytes

works like a charm,

thank You Nuhi

icy

[nLite vs. mainboard sound]

hey doertsch

in Drivers, include Sound Controllers ,

when Nlited Windows is installed, then install ,directX vers9

Then use your cd with drivers of your motherbord

And your problem will be solved

installing those drivers with Nlite shall never work

icy

[First shot at nlite]

Hey HydraHeaded

i obtaained a source of +- 155 Mb , mediaplayer 11 included

There are new updates out, so i have to redo mine one off these days

if you take your time and work hard, you will get a source under 200 Mb

icy

[Removed Language by mistake, fix?]

look for Super Language Pack for XP SP3 on the net

icy

[nLite GRRRRRRRR! could there be an easier way to put programs in n]

My opinion is that Nlite is easy to use,but the interaction of Windows with the hardware can give a lot of

failures because drivers & OS parts are deleted after slimming down.

I always make images , so afterwards it only takes a few minutes to start over or to install a fresh copy.

i never integrate drivers or software, it is much easier this way.integrating those is not worth it,to much

problems and work to integrate

.

The iso of my last Nlited XP takes 155.385 MB and works like a charm.

icy

[Hotfixes won't integrate, XP SP3]

hey F_O_XXX

i used those mentioned at http://users.telenet.be/tc76/winup/_winxpsp3.html and had no problems ever

icy

[Future nLite releases?]

Hey

I' ve been using ME lite for years , but after years my ME became obsolete because many new programs

didn't run anymore onto this OS .

Each time I tried Windows2000 i was disghusted about this s*** , especially the administrator s***.

I was even more disghusted about XP.

About 8 monys ago i finally decided to go with Windows2000, i tried out hslip with Gurglemeyers SP5,

and also Nlite , after many tests i decuded to go for Nlite and finally after some time and a lot of swetting

i go a small Nlited Windows2000 that performed very well untill now.

A few weeks ago i started to nlite an XP SP and now i 've got a small ,155,8 Mb Nlited XP wit mediaplayer 11

installed,this works like acharm up to now, and it was even more swetting.

There are a few bugs in Nlite:

- when i nlited all in one piece i got runtime errors

- when i deleted keyboards, i was not able to install my keyboard, so finally i copiead my keyboard

over the US one and the problem was solved.

In the beginning I was very sceptic about Nlite, but now that i have experiance i say that Nlite is a

wonderfull program to slim down Windows to my needs and i thank Nuhi for this great work he has done.

I think also that there are so many different hardware windows is running onto that a compilation that

works onto one windows,probably will not work onto another computer,so there will always be a lot of

swetting to obain the desired results.

My wish is to remove al the administrator and logon schit like in the old days of tandy,trs 80 and apple,

Thanh You very much again Nuhi

icy

[Intel ICH9M/M-E Family 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 2929 (Drivers for]

Use bootitng , i use it for years, up to 16 primary partitions and more but not at the same time

it is very small and you will be astonished what it can, try it and forget about all the rest,

see their site for more information

icy

[adding language support after install]

Oh i forgot to mention

I you want to add support for your language you

can find Super Language Pack for XP SP3 onto the net.

it consist of a lot off languages in exe format,

so I think you can install them easely

icy

[adding language support after install]

copy your keyboard over KBDUS.DLL in the directory of your final source

start Nlite and simply make an iso, burn it and install it

I have remarked that there could possibbly be a bug in Nlite as

I could nor install my keyboard also

icy

[Question about hotfixes]

Hey Guys

Scripten

Windows installer

can the be put in hotfixes or better installed separatedly ?

are there other items like this ?

Thank You for answering

icy

[Problem vith icons]

Hey Guys

I also took out

-Windows Media Player

-Windows Media Player 6.4

in Multimedia

I had to install DirextX 9.c in order to install K-lite codexes

Up to now everything works Ok and installs

Uninstalling Help Engine gave me problem to install some programs,

so I put it back

Concerning DirextX 9.c in , is there a posibility to take out most of the bloat,

because i'm sure 80% of it is useless ?

Can someone give me some hints ?

icy

[Problem vith icons]

I' ve been looking around and found this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\exefile\DefaultIcon]

@="%1"

i tried it , rebooted, but didn't work

then i changed the icons and guess what, it worked, problem solved

Ps for testing purposes i advice You to use Booitng, very small program,

up to 16 primairy partitions to chose from,format partitions before booting etc

You can even format USB drives that are not formattable the normal way

iocy