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In XP Home, it is mandatory to have a user with admin rights. You removed it and rthat's where your trouble started. I don't know how to solve that. I'd recreate a new user (or two if you really need him to be out of "Admons") and get rid of the 1st one's folder.

Dell 720 printer drivers for Win98SE. I haven't got anyting to do with that site so I can't guaranty that it'll still be there in a year, but links are as valid today as they were 3 years ago and method works (it's more complicated than just grabing the drivers). I tested it. The Dell 720 is a modified Lexmark 601 (cardridges tops also molded differently so you have the choice between buying Dell's or using a sharp knife). Printer alignement doesn't work with that modified driver (you can still align them with an XP machine).

Ah...that's what changed your unattend settings. No, you don't EVEN have to reimport the last_session, you just do nothing but ISO. If you reimport then you reintegrate, you reapply tweaks etc and you reapply (or reset some) unattend settings, furthermore, the Last_session is changed aswell as reflection of those changes. If you only create ISO, the Last_session is not changed.

??? Don't know what you are doing but if you restart nLite and select only "Make Bootable Iso" or something like that (last step), nothing is changed to the content of the folder. And to the lazy ones, it only takes 10 seconds to get there.

Last_session.ini contains those infos and is included in the iso by default. It only shows the modifications to the source for the last session of nLite, it won't tell you what was removed from the Original MS disk if the source is the result of a previous operation.

It seems to me that you have to remove what's called the "bezel", the plastic cover that makes the front of your computer. That is often clipsed to the metal frame and you need to get it off from the inside of the case.

Can you try "E:\Win98\setup /P i" instead of "D:\Win98\setup /P i" ? Also trying with the CD in both drives ? +"CDROM unit 0" means it's the 1st one, as it's counting 0,1... If it still doesn't work....what's left ? -test the media (your cd) in an other computer with cdcheck for instance. -put your hdd in an other computer and put all install files from the cd to the hdd, but this involve opening the cases and playing with jumpers. Eidenk I know it's long, but read the thread, you got 3 posts already answered

We had to search for our old SCSI cards to put a cdrw in a user's pc, the new PC we have received this year have no IDE connector. There is still a floppy connector though.

Did you disconnect anything in between ? Can you try puting the cd in your other drive and retype "D:\Win98\setup /P i" ? This means the boot floppy loads cdrom drivers and one of your drives has received the letter D. You probably have one FAT partition on your HD that's called C:.

1st level links can also be managed in the "customize" (last) section of nLite.

1) what XPdisk are you using to start nLite with ? Obviously something is missing right from the start so you cannot end up with a booting disk (see "4"). 2) You usually need .inf files though I'm not sure for "text mode" drivers 3) You need the "text mode" driver for the XP install to recognize your disk before Windows is running. 4) see 1)

Check in those menu that the Hard Disk is recognized. If not, you'll have to open the box and check both signal and power cables to that Hard Disk. If still not... then you are out of luck. If it is recognized, then you'll have to check the "Boot order" (or boot devices) and check the HDD is at a good place. Seing your 1st post, there is nothing to check after failing booting from CD.

That is quite clear, my friend. Get a new keyboard.

Well, ...your boot disk boots ...what else are you expecting it to do ? If you want to repairing an XP on the hard drive, first check if it is recognized in Bios and properly set in boot order. Also tell us if anything was changed before first failure to start.

That is the bit you missed when so close to the goal, instead of "D:\setup /P i", you need to type "D:\win98\setup /P i"

It's still available as direct download from MajorGeek (237Mb!).

What was on those PCs at first ? If it's 9x, NT or 2k you can try to grab "upgrade" retail CDs from eBay, that would be legal. If it's XPHome, I don't know.

Or setup.exe is not on the root of D:, but in a "Win98" or "install" directory so you get "Bad command or file name" trying on D and "not ready reading drive E" as there's no media in it.

You don't have addons on a BartPE disk, you have Plugins that are setup BartPE's way, using XP's standard files. So basically, no for BartPE.

The question is very clear to me, he wants to end up with an installation that has a C:\i386 folder in it. To mara-; the XP disc is made, the install works. To Jaclaz; surely a simple command at the beginning or at the end of install would do the trick, I never attempted anything like this so I can't reply. To ajay; what's the point of that ? To all; cheers.

... old thread.

what kind of floppy are we talking about here ???? 1.44 is the size of a floppy. I didn't know XP makes WinME boot disks. I can't test here as I'm typing on a portable without floppy. Anybody confirm ?

Looks like a hardware problem. Check your HDD connectors (some times they are not fully plugged in) and run a check on the disk.

Do you have both drives now in the machine or did you remove the DVD-CDRW combo ? Did you doublecheck the jumpers ?

Grab one of those floppies Jaclaz pointed to, create the physical media, try it in your other PC (try to boot from it, don't format anything of course). If it works, and preferably if you have CDROM access as well after boot, retry on your 1st machine. If it does not work, your floppy drive is defct or you haven't setup your BIOS properly (do you see the led on when it tries to read the floppy at startup ?). If you can't bot from floppy, try to make a bootable CDROM with that floppy as the "boot image" and try to boot from it. If you can do that and get a letter for the cdrom after boot, then you are saved. Pop in you Win98 install cd and launch the install.