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Excuse my ignorance, just out of curiosity, is it really a difference between CD and DVD or is it not between IDE and SATA optical drives? +I laughed at way the vicious minded system censored your "Matsu_a".

Which shows the question makes no sense and should probably have been "post" SP3. Then yes. -3. that's what "insert multiple driver folder" is for. Remove drivers for other Windows versions that are placed in the list after that action.

With no media in the drive, Imgburn lets me see 1x as option. I can't test if it remains available when inserting a disc. I guess yes. As Imgburn is portable, you don't risk anything using it. But I can't see any advantage to burn at 1x.

Some claim 460mb of operating system and 768mb of swap file and less (still including SP3).

The 1st sticky post might have relevant info.

Hello and welcome, please read this.

Ouch ! there's a difference between "turned off automatically" and put off without shut down. How often does that happen ?I don't think any defragmenter likes to be interrupted that way.

Cirustus, we know of ~3 causes for rejected keys; -SP3 integrated with nLite under Vista or 7even. -that key was actually never tried with original CD (because original was automated) and poster admits it later. -key was blacklisted by Service Pack. It would be more interesting to find out the cause of your problem if your case is different from those. I doubt using Nero to burn the CD changes anything to such problem.

2nd try. A blinking cursor can also be caused by -more active partitions. Like if you restore the image of an active partition next to an other already active partition. I'm pretty sure of that.

If I may add, also - no active partition.

So have you read the 1st line of the 1st answer ?

It should work indeed if F11 is pressed during Bios screen, unless some changes were made to the partitions and the MBR (using Partition Magic or other similar programs).

You can check this or this, not sure it applies.

that also can take time some time, it has to check each files attributes (read only?) and user's rights (if NTFS).

Why reinstall at first? If I understand well, things started to go wrong after the updates. Can you not just take the two sticks out to check if it's running fine without them? If you suspect hardware config problem, why post in the "software" forum?

To complete the already given info, nLite does not feature/support (and never will) auto-partitionning nor auto-formatting.

Seen that solved by video driver update on some machines.

What was the result/error then ?

If you don't go the slipstream way, an alternative is indeed to -install your pre-SP1 XP on a smaller (than 127Gig) partition. -(download and) apply SP1a (or SP2) then SP3 (that's probably what your experts meant but a bit confused themself, see below) -reclaim the rest of your disc space for the C drive of your now updated system using (booting) GPartEd CD. You can't indeed use SP3 on top of your pre sp1 install. You can slipstream SP3 directly to an install CD but you can't apply it to a pre-SP1a running system. +SP1a is much more smaller to download than SP2. Warranty ? If your system came with a hidden "Recovery Partition", that recovery system would probably not work anymore after modification by GParted (and so no more software warranty/support) but this is not your case at all as you're buying a new drive that has nothing to do with your original system, any use is permitted. New drives don't even come with a partition! A pre-SP1 system is surely too old to be under warranty anyway.

What do you mean by that ? At what point do you quit the program (nothing's done until you click "Yes" at "Do you want to start the process?"). Do you overwrite the source with the original or let nLite do it at each restart ? Do you load "last session.ini" ? Do you restart nLite and run it on a resulting set of files ? Are you not confused between ticking/unticking keep/remove... ticking IS removing, right ?

Might still be on your C: drive in \Program Files\nLite\Presets\

I see you remove a lot (including IE core which you might regret later). Not sure at all but it could be "Share Creation Wizard" ?

Is it a Dell ? Some people unfortunately report problems with Dell CDs (just an idea as all you do seems correct). Missing files at install is typically caused by applying SP3 to a previously nLited source, which is not your case.

Yes, and it's in red bold text up your screen; please attach your "last session.ini". For the rest, always start from an original set of files or one you've ONLY integrated SP3 (with or without nLite), then run nLite with all your modifications in one go. Only apply hotfixes/updates you need and not those for components that are not integrated in your source. Missing files errors are what you get when you apply SP3 on a modified set of files. Cheers.

No, thanks. Sorry if I confused people with tons of links in my post. I thought the info on the page was interesting (In fact didn't just come across the page, I searched for it as an "Ask" setup.exe was downloaded today on my computer by a software (Foxit PDF Viewer indeed) that I installed years ago. Maybe an automatic update that I failed to disable but unwanted for sure.