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And please edit your 1st post (title) to comply with forum rule 12. Welcome.

I just had a doubt about someone buying 3 Dells, same model "for personal use, at home", that's why I asked if it was at work. He said yes. From there on, things were quite ambiguous. But Jaclaz solved his problem, lets move on.

About 11 years ago I also had to upgrade a 2Gig HDD in a Compaq Armada (1530 ??? 266MHz as well or even less). Compaq site was saying that up to 6Gig HDD was tested but my company sent me a 20Gig. I never got it to work. Bios was seeing 8Gig while partitionning programs (fdisk and Ranish PM) were seing something else. Whatever the size of the partition I was making, I could format it, make it active, but no boot. I ended up buying a 2nd hand 10Gig and it worked. Anyway, as long as your Bios sees nothing (by the way, if I remember, Bios User Interface was on the HDD itself or to be ran from floppy), there is no software workaround.

Well, that's a bad start. Was it seeing the previous (smaller I suppose) HDD ? So, is the computer "known good" ? Is the drive "known good" ? Have you checked the jumper (if any, I reckon it's an old 2"5 IDE drive). If set to boot from HDD first, does it hang or boot next item (again, if any, floppy or cd).

What does the BIOS see ? What (device/ OS/ tool) do you boot from to partition the drive ?

I stopped there. We've always refused to help people using nLite at work.

You need to change that key to [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Mouse] "SwapMouseButtons"="0" If you want to remake an install ('you say you're bothered by the fact it's swapped "at install" but you don't want to start over ..???), then you'll just have to start with fresh files, load the last "session.ini" that was created when running nLite and it shouldn't be that hard.

Well, afaik, OnePiece never posted here at MSFN. It seems he's at wincert.net.

... this might be a consequence of point 2 ( ...\desktop\...). I never had nLite run more than 20 minutes (but I never integrated as much updates either). But you don't really give a clue as what time it really takes.

-It seems you are applying SP3 running nLite in a Vista environnement. This will get you trouble (like rejected key). -Putting everything on the "user\Desktop" (XP files, packages, drivers, iso) is known cause trouble as well. -You might be integrating some stuff that is made for WMP versions (11) that are not in your build. This is known to cause reboots. -finally the obvious; enough RAM and HDD space for your VM to run ? (Try with your original Dell cd).

Double check you have the right drivers for the right model (enter Serial on Dell's site) and OS. Those Dell drivers don't have very explicit names.

That's a good start. Next step: check our questions ?

Maybe not to your employer .

Is this at work ? What kind of Windows Licence is this ? Are you sure the problem is nLite related ?

If you don't understand, best advice is to not use the program at all or to remove nothing. You'd take less risks ticking no option at all (that you don't understand) than using anybody's ini file (that you wouldn't understand either). Also if you want people to help you, which seems very important ("help me please") and urgent (maybe not that much now), and they take their time to read you, at least answer their questions.

You need to investigate further. At this point you have it hanging at POST (this means hardware problem) and behaving differently in XP and Win7 (would mean software problem in XP). If POST problem only happens when restarting (not at cold boot), check for available Bios update.

Legal: -receive cd with license. -buy cd separately, use own license -borrow cd, use own license -make copy of your own cd for yourself (as long as you don't sell/give the original). illegal: -copy-download-duplication by any mean of (someone else's) cd. "Help me do this illegal thing"; ->thread closed. "Help me do this thing legally"; ->thread open.

you might check your facts. Has it ever worked differently before ? Any hardware change since ? I would begin with checking jumper settings on both devices. They are probably on the same IDE cable. One should be "master", the other one "slave", the master should be at the end of the cable. Or you can have both in "Cable Select".

Is the (NumLock) LED still ON (and responding to changes) on the keyboard ? Is the (green) light stil ON on the monitor ? Can you see any HDD activity going on when the screen goes black ? Does this happen while you're working or could it be some power saving feature gone bad ? If you press the power button once (when it happens), does the computer shutdown ? Can you try leaving it on BIOS screen for 2 hours, that would rule out software problem.

You don't need admin privileges. nLite just assumes you have them and the self-extractor suggests "C:\Program Files\" as unpack directory. If you don't have the rights to extract it there, just choose an other path for extraction and there you go. No admin rights needed. +4 of the 8 links are dead indeed.

A bit late... but... IrfanView 4.20 and up (current is 4.30) has that file size option for saving JPGs (only). Also usable with its "Batch Conversion" menu. I guess you can't manage all image settings+file size for BMPs as they are not compressed.

Why do you make an iso with no mod ? Why not start your VM directly from your "valid copy", or even better, from your valid original?

The iso you are talking about is a modified image of a cd that you don't have. You can buy one though they seem to be pretty rare. Or you can apply your image on your computer, apply SP3 and all patches then reimage it to keep a copy of your fully patched install. But this has nothing to do with nLite and this forum.

or unless you only choose "Make ISO" and make no modification at all, which suggests indeed that the source CD (if any) is the problem.

So you can't use nLite on such disk because it is not an installation disk but a disk that copies a previously installated XP on your hard drive. Sorry.