IcemanND

if partition magic won't do it, you could use Ghost but you will need a second hard drive temporarily or a cd burner that ghost will recognize. So you would ghost you existing drive with only the one partition to the second hard drive as a disk to disk image but don't change the partition size yet. Then ghost it back to the first size and resize the partition to the size of the original drive. If doing it to a CD then you capture the drive to an image, use full compression (switch -z9) then restore the image to the drive and expand the partition.

I think we will see more interest in this would it be possible to post your solution for all interested? Me being one of them. Thanks

Or coat the keys with clear fingernail polish. OT: Had a customer once, back in the early 80's when keyboards cost $100 or more (at least the real IBM ones) that took fingernail polish to all of the keys after spraying it down with a full can of Lysol. Then brought it back and said she needed a new keyboard because it didn't work. That was the first time I ever took a keyboard apart. After she bought a new one and refuse to take the "modified" on with her I took it home disassembled it and ran it through the dishwasher. Then put it in the oven on low for an hour. Left it out to finish any possible drying for a week, put it back together, and it actually worked for many years. But the keys were too smooth, never got used to that.

does this work across diferent wireless cards?

actually we have multiple internet connections. The connection that test was run on is part of a fiber link. With over 23000 devices connected in the last week and that doesn't include VOIP you gotta have something good. Can't remember if it was OC-1 or OC-3 and they split the OC-3 amongst the separate VLANS. been too long since it happened.

if the image is already syspreped you are pretty much out of luck. When you add boot drivers it adds a number of registry entries so that the controller can be found at first boot. Best thing to do is to have the drivers added by sysprep using massstoragedrivers section.

@travisowens - your solution will not ping every machine in a domain. only in a subnet. jaclaz's solution will at least ping every machine in the text file. Which if the query to create it was done correctly can have every machine in the domain listed in it. If you want to eliminate the text file you could use VBS to query the domain for machines and then ping them.

Some manufacturers if you can and complain will either replace the keyboard or send you new key caps. worth a call to find out.

you could do a couple of things. you could rename the drivers folder to D instead of DRIVERS that will save you almsot 80 characters. You could also do the same with the sub folders. Or you could add the paths directly to the registry key and not use oempnpdriverspath in you answer file at all. There is a setdevicepath.exe app here on MSFN that you could run to populate the regitry key before the drivers are needed. What deployment tool are you using?

Need an exception in you firewall for frontpage possibly?

jcarle didn't say which connection so I did both once I got logged onto my office system.

Clavicle - ouch! a couple of teamed dial up connections might be better. work:

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in the answer file set UnattendMode=ProvideDefault see the deploy.chm file in the deployment tools for more settings.

boot from a bart pe cd and delete them from there.

do you have Directx 9.0+ installed? Usually needed for these to install correctly in my experience. Did you uninstall any previous version? Also normally needed. Shouldn't matter for the drivers but .NET is also required for the software to run, might give it a shot too.

are you in XP home or Pro?

what are you trying to remove?

Hey if you are going to reload you can always try sysprep or a repair first. What have you got to lose but a little time.

Hey the edit button is your friend. But at any rate it does not appear that that bat to exe app gives the option as to where it extracts the bat file to. And it should really be doing it to the temp folder anyway. Try this: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...0569/50569.html I've used this method for VBS and CMD scripts. It will require that .NET be install on both the system you build it on and that version or greater on the target system you wish to run the script on. But it extracts the script to the temp folder then runs it. It also "encodes" it to make it more difficult to read.

If you are really concerned with speed and no problems down the road your best bet is a clean install. There are registry keys related to the hardware but the best way to remove a device is through the device manager. If you wish to proceed without a clean install you have three options. Run sysprep before swapping out the motherboard and processor and have it run mini setup after replacement. Be sure to have sysprep load the mass storage drivers. Install the chipset drivers for the new motherboard, including MSD before swapping motherboard and hope that they work when you swap. Do a repair installation of XP if it doesn't boot.

%CD% gives you the current directory. So if you double click on the CMD file it will be the directory the script resides in. If you open a cmd window and run it from another directory it will give you the path to the directory you are currently in. If you create a shortcut to it then it depends upon the setting in "Start In:" as to what you will get back. And actually it is still not right. Since he wanted the filename also. And by adding two lines you fix the problem with running it in the root directory. set backslash= if not "%cd:~-1%" == "\" set backslash=\ REG ADD HKCU\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Databases /V CurrentDatabase /D "%CD%%backslash%khanh.mvc" /F>NUL note: everything from REG ADD to >NUL should be on one line.

If it was my machine I would either go with an add in video card or 2gb of memory. Or get a board with the option of an add-in video card, or configure the memory so that more can be added without throwing memory away. I always try and build a machine expecting it will do more than what I think it will when I built it.

Seems that is what he asked for. Another option if you have a dns server set up in your network is to use either the random name or a fixed name depending upon how many machines you set up at once and then use a script to query dns for the registered name and change it accordingly.

Does whatever program you are using to convert it to an EXE extract the batch file to the current folder then execute it? In which case it can't write to the cd. Knowing what you are using for BAT to EXE conversion may help.