IcemanND

I would have to say yes.

I wrote one many years ago that is here on the board you are welcome to use and abuse it to your hearts content. http://www.msfn.org/board/Dear-Gosh-Vbs-Gu...8809#entry68809

Have you checked to see if you have any bad sectors on your hard drive. In my experiences if safe mode takes a long time to load also you are looking at a hardware issue, usually hard drive.

either way works

in most cases usually not. but in some cases yes. Sorry, I don't remember which use and which don't anymore. But if you check the winnt.sif reference at http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/ you should be able to get an idea of what settings use and which don't.

That looks fine. Some need quotes, some don't some don't care.

Yes c: - windows d: - CD e: - docs & settings.

As long as you don't have any other drives in the machine that show up when you are partitioning the drive then I would have to say yes. If you have other drives in the machine that show up in the install location selection/partition screen then there are no guarantees. So if you don't mind your lettering to be: c: - windows d: - CD e: - docs & settings. Then that should be all you need to change.

oh there were a lot more than that. Until my university turned on a border firewall any machine running XP SP1 without additional protection would be infected within 10 minutes with over 30 different viruses. And I'm sure that number has risen greatly.

put a test machine with just SP1 on a public Ip connection and you will be infected with a slew of them in no time.

You can have sysprep just stop at the end and not reboot or restart. But you have to run it from the the GUI not the command line.

I just did a test and it turns out if you partition it from the windows install the second partition will be assigned E: and the CD will be D: so it looks like you will have to partition before installing in order to get the drive order you desire.

If you manually create your partitions during the windows install and select a parition size for c: which is less than the full size of the drive you can select the remaining 'unpartitioned space' and create another partition. then when you return to the list select the first partition for the windows install. Unfortunately in microsofts infinite wisdom (insert extreme sarcasm here) you can only format the drive that windows is installed to. So you have to format the second partition yourself later during the install. Thus the T-39 stage, see http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/13/ for the installation timeline. Or you other option is to partition and format the drive before you begin your install from windows or bart PE.

I don't know why you are getting a BSOD. But here is what I have used in the past. Just be sure that the location you are moving the profiles directory to is formatted before T-13 otherwise you will have all kinds of strange problems. The CopySource.cmd script also includes a script to format the D: partition. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=YES [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended UnattendSwitch=Yes OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=Yes WaitForReboot=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings" DetachedProgram=CMD.EXE Arguments="/Q /C START /MIN /B %systemdrive%\Install\CopySource.cmd" [UserData] ProductKey=Z1Y2X-W3V4U-T5S6R-Q7P8O-N9M0L FullName="ND User" OrgName="University of Notre Dame" ComputerName=* [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=574 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=BUILD [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=0 [GuiRunOnce] Command0=c:\windows\system32\autoupdate.vbs [Shell] DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes DefaultThemesOff=Yes

You either have to create and format the partitions before you perform the install. Or you create the C: and D: partition during the drive installation selection and then format the D: partition during t-39. D: has to be formatted before T-13.

In theory it could be done but you would be better off to just start over clean. Or install the new patch over the old.

;Dell Laptop Latitude D810=up.inf What's your code for pulling the model information? I have about 100 machines of various models I could run a script against and post the results here.

You could either download the drivers from Dell and extract them, or try out other applications like Driver magician. You will find that they all pull different files some more complete than others. I wrote one called DriverBackup which is available here on the forum which works fairly well depending upon the driver.

Ok, post install possibly, during windows installation I don't see a way. Seems like a lot of work in comparison to extracting the the hard drive and deleting later.

I think what you are asking is if each individual sub folder could be compressed and then they get uncompressed as windows needs them for the install. If this is your question then the answer would be no. Windows has to have direct access to the INF files and also does not have native 7zip capabilities. You would have to rewrite the driver installation portion of windows to accomplish this.

fastest way is to grab dial-a-fix and run the repair on ss/https/cryptography. The long way is to vist http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822798 and follow those lovely suggestions.

You would only end up with malware from nLite if it was included in somehting you add to your install using nLite. nLite does not do any of that on it's own.

that has not been my experience, you can set that as an option as I recall in the sysprep.inf. though ghost will remove pagefile, though it puts a place holder in the image for it.

using ghost you can create an image directly to CD/DVD which includes everything needed to do the restore.

ther's also the Windows Updates Downloader (WUD) http://wud.jcarle.com