IcemanND

cd's fit just fine in the 5 1/4" floppy drives, you can even close the door sometimes, no cramming required. Don't read very well though and can get very scratched. What else did you include/remove for the cd when you created it with nLite?

feedback squeal or a clicking noise?

what hardware are you putting the image onto?

txtsetup.sif is in the i386 folder

detectdrive will need to run before your apps menu does.

What OS?

It depends upon what restore system you are refering to. Some basically run an unattended installation, others use a disk image to restore a system. WHich do you want?

is the partition set to be active?

it depends upon what you did with nLite when you created the disk. Most likely no it will not return it to being a standard XP MCE cd.

what is the script on the server doing? some operations will not run correctly from remote locations.

Please don't double post.

not unless you create then yourself eiher manually or with a utility like DetectDrive http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=At...ost&id=4829

If you are going to go that route you may as well just integrate them. How: <update name>.exe /integrate:<path to xp source> <update name> = original downloaded name or rename to 8.3 filename <path to source> = your working location you copied the cd to Or use nLite, or any umber of utilities and scripts to download and or integrate them. there are also update packs you can use to integrate all the updates.

No way that i have ever found. I ended up just using the massstorage driver pack to install them and have not run across a MSD yet that i can't install the image to.

You can partition and format from DOS/PE and then kick the installation off from the command line winnt.exe in DOS, winnt32.exe in PE. Or you can partition the disk from PE/DOS, then reboot and use your UACD to do the install and set Repartition to No and AutoPartition to 1 in your winnt.sif

If you want to do something other than delete everything on the drive and create a single partition you will need something more than the winnt.sif answer file. With an answer file you can either delete everything and create a single large partition and install, or it can be set to install to the first partition that does not already contain an installation of Windows. If you want to create additional partitions you either need to create them before the installation using Windows PE or DOS. Or have the installation stop at the disk partitioning screen and partition it manually, though it will only format the partition that you install Windows to.

As long as the machine will see it it should work. Unfortunately that I can't help you with.

I think you need to get a newer version of diskpart to put on your PE2005 disk. Diskpartitioner is dependent upon the output from Diskpart, if it doesn't match as expect it won't work correctly.

faster will work but it will run at the speed of the slowerest memory in your machine.

get yourself a PC2-4300 2 x 1gb ram upgrade kit.

It might tell you in the BIOS.

usually it will be printed on a label on the DIMM with other specs.

What speed is your existing memory? 400/533/600? Unless you are replacing it there is no sense buying memory faster than what you already have, unless you intend to replace it in the future.

Well what is strange is that my code reads that key directly, so if it can decode the REG file it it should be able to decode the key when it reads it from the registry. Guess I'm going to have to break down and install Vista on a a machine to play. Hopefully I can find 64-bit machine to play with too.

so if you export HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion which contains the DigitalProductID field it will decode it from the REG file, but it won't decode it when you do the standard decode? that will be a pain.