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There is NO need whatsoever for the partition to be Primary, nor Active, any NT based system can be as well installed on logical volumes inside Extended. I'd say the NTLDR from the primary active partition is selected and then it points to the OS that can be installed on an other partition indeed.

Read the post, he says it is a genuine unchanged/edited copy of xp home edition, maybe he knows what he's talking about? What about double checking ? Different versions of XP have different files. Those files are on the XP Home cd and are about 7Meg together.

Funny, HouseCall's OnLine Virus Check is vers.6.5

I thought he wanted 1 drive only ($799 for 16Gig ) not the whole setup

So it "won't play", "doesn't even want to play", "wouldn't play", "still can't play" and "refuses to play"... but, what does actually happen ? Any error message ?

In the big line, in case of mechanical failure, hard disks are never "repairable". What you see as C: in DOS might not be what your "XP Home" C: is. The partitions might be formated NTFS and skipped (given no letter) by DOS. Now if what you see on C: is really on the hard drive, then there is something strange with what you state at first (that the HDD is not found at startup).

It's just an interface, it does not have any impact on what the program does.

If files are not copied because the CD is scratched, you should have an error message with the name of the file ("unable to copy ..."). Check your media with CDCHECK, it will also tell you which files are unreadable.

SP2 is installed but your CD is not SP2, right ? You should have formatted it from within XP not booting from the CD. Someone might come up with an elegant solution, I never had that problem. Biggest drive here is 40Gb.

Check the "Tool /Folders Options / Files Types" menu in Explorer, make sure there is no "/add" in the line that handles the AVI files (C:\...\mplayer.exe...) etc. You could also set the "open" as default instead of "play" so that it becomes bold when you right-click. There might be an option in WMP11 but you say you searched. And I don't have WMP.

How would an OS "not work well with partitions" ? Indianchief, if there's no floppy in your Thinkpad, you could try to make a bootable cd with the above floppy as "boot image" and the content of your Win98 disk.

What is the state of the PC at first ? (Empty HDD ? Properly booting OS ?). Do you have a second computer to try if the problem comes from the CD or from the PC ?

Well... you insert them in the "drivers" section. For Zip and Exe, you first have to extract the files, then in nLite you point to the relevant .inf file.

You should thank me, you do get notice.

this is why I checked his other post

You're not providing much info on what you are doing or have done to get to that point, and you haven't posted on your other thread so I guess you're gone as soon as you arrived. I understand the partitions are messed up. If you have a floppy drive, try booting from it and run "testdisk for dos". If you have a BartPE cd, you can run "Testdisk for Windows" from a USB stick. It could fix your disk.

The easiest way is to remake the unattended disk starting from an original MS disk instead of going backward re-adding something to a modified CD.

I'd love to see you cut off the excess metal with your teeth

What do you slipstream ? (what do you add ?)

You definitely can't put it like that, re-read Xzian's post, there are bits on one side and bytes on the other side, you can't just write 'bps' for both, it doesn't make sense ! Check your speed on test sites, like this one for instance. It should show at least 500kb/sec.

This in case you meant "can't read MOVIE DVDs"

When you say "first attempt", do you mean you ran nLite once or just that this is your first ISO ? If you ran nLite twice, you'll only see the Last Session.ini with last session's operations (hence the name...), not the total of all that was removed since starting from original MS CD. Maybe you can search in your \Program Files\nLite\presets folder to check for other ini files.

At last. I was surprised no one reacted to this sort of nonsense: "1mb = 125kb/s" What about $1M = $125k ? still fine ?

XP Home OEM uses OEM key, not Volume Licence key. The difference between your key and the one used by the recovery is that yours needs activation, the other one checks the Bios of your laptop instead of the internet for activation.

In the i386 folder, of course.