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... there are 5 quotes ("), that is one quote too much or one too many. +there should probably be a space before -s.

I hope he was not holding his breath for an advice.

Or dig out that old 1gig USB stick you bought 6 years ago and (forget about teaching yourself mandarin) try any method of installing XP from USB. Jaclaz already provided few links, here is a related step by step/video tutorial. The set of install file (here resulting in an ISO) would still have to be previously processed to include your mobo's SATA text drivers.

From what I remember it is the integration of SP3 under Win7 that blocks the key functionnality. So you can say it is not an nLite bug but it is still a bug "with" nLite (I'm not discussing whether the author could have fixed it or not at the time SP3 or Vista came out). Also whether integrating SP3 manually from an elevated command prompt solves the problem or not (as I think I remember I read that somewhere), I never checked it.

Why not simply start install process up to the partition choice ? If the partitions appear, the disk is seen correctly, the drivers are in. As for your key, it might indeed be rejected if you ran nLite under Win7, this is a known (unpatched) bug. Does the key appear in the "Last session_u.ini" (don't post that here) ?

Or a preactivated OEM version.

And if it is really new hardware, you won't get much gain from all the hassle.

Click the "Browse" button ?

And so reply after reply. But who's going to have the last word this time ?

Again NOT really. The Seatools run under FreeDOS and may (or may not) work under DOS but you can have a DOS menu in FreeDOs allright , but Memtest not only doesn't run under an OS, but it also uses NOT a "known" filesystem on the floppy (or floppy image) from which it is booted. jaclaz Really. That's exactly what I say. The title says "for DOS baded programs". So simply booting DOS then choosing the program should be an option. But if one of those two "DOS programs" is not a "DOS program", that won't do.

Technically there is a problem with your view as (if) they are both provided as bootable cd images (ISOs), you can't get both on 1 cd. I mean you can't have two cd images applied to one cd. My friend Jaclaz directs you to a way of copying both iso files directly to your cd and add a menu to boot either of them image files. Other way (without needing a boot manager ) is the old DOS (since DOS6?) menu available through config.sys/autoexec.bat. But the result won't be as easy to use (you'd have to extract the iso's and would be strictly limited to DOS programs).

This is a technical forum, not Youtube. Please don't post nonsense. Still... Most hilarious quote ever !

I don't know exactly what your problem is but creating a new shortcut to "Standby" on your desktop is much probably a very easy workaround (if it works of course).

Have you tried this? HOW to delete the setupold.exe file from C:\windows\system32folder ? boot from the XP CD choose Repair Console choose Windows install to repair enter Administrator password (if any) type (at prompt) del C:\windows\system32\setupold.exe

Who's the bully now ? I wasn't picky, it was clearly related. I think the word "installing" was the relevant difference between my suggestion and what had been offered before. Well, obviously (you just pretend not to see this, I know ), in my case, the image would have been one of a partition, not of a disk (remember the OP only intends to "move XP" from one disk to an other). As such my image is 100% untouched (as you just write, only the size is reduced but we know it's a detail) while you list all 4 "temporary" changes your method would have (permanently) brought to the image. I really stop here. I mean it.

That one is very easy to find. But I won't tell you because it looks like you haven't even searched (it took me 15 seconds, really). You could also give some info on how you just "solved" the .Net problem without reinstall, it could come handy to other people having the same problem. But it seems you've done it all the wrong way, removing things without knowing what threy were instead of really removing only components you were 100% sure you would never need. Not reading the descriptions the author took the time to write (on demand of the non experts) for each component. I expect you to come back a few times for other "strange" problems. All in all you'll waste much more time solving those problems than you'll gain from the half % speed improvement.

Which was actually the SAME one I had proposed LONG BEFORE you did, i.e. booting to "something else" Don't be so competitive, at the end it will just keep people from replying to any question. Not same solution. You were solving "no external boot while target drive present" when I was solving "no target present while external boot". You would have created a 2nd partition for an alternative OS to boot from, I would have created one for temporary local image storage (more time involved, more space needed, less elegant, less practical for a possible "next time" only advantage was; less knowledge required IMHO).

This is the line that got your laptop described as "craptop" in the other thread. Computers usually do boot from UFD since many many years. Your main problem being that you could not have external boot ("from cd only") and target drive at the same time as they were using a same enclosure, booting USB was the obvious solution. Where do you get your info that it doesn't boot from USB ?

So you or the tool you used translated "Português (Brasil)" to "English (USA)" Have you tried without removing ".Net Framework" ? I'm not even sure the file you posted before was the same. Do you always begin with a complete set of original files (you can't re-add stuff) ?

Without installing third party tools. And I had a valid suggestion for that.

As stated up there, why does your ini file look weird ? For instance why does it say "Protection Screens" instead of "Screen Savers" ? How come it says "English (USA)" instead of "English (United States)". Are you using a translation (other than "English (default)" language on the 1st screen? Where did you get nLite 1.4.9.1 from and what exactly is written on your original CD?

At least now we know why "nLite faild".

Welcome to the forum. Please read the big red message up your screen. There is also a sticky thread that probably already answers your question. -Windows Update Manager needed for IE7 and IE8 -Net Logon Service needed for .Net Framework.

Have you tried your HP printer on the same physical USB port that you used successfully for your HDD ?

I had a Via AC97 at the time on an AK72 motherboard and did not have problem with w98 drivers. I think I used those from the mobo's site then maybe even updated later to the Via's site. You can check these here: http://www.aopen.nl/userdownload_List.aspx?RecNo=4018&Model=202 http://www.viaarena.com/displaydrivers.aspx?PageID=1&OSID=7&CatID=1500&SubCatID=104