Ponch

Hello, "they" are not working on anything. "He" stopped working on this (nLite, for XP) years ago as well as his vLite (see other forum) for Vista. There has not been any update to these since then.

I've had that problem already but I can't remember where it came from . It would take you 2 minutes to check wether the original disk shows the same behaviour. Are you not using an upgrade disk ?

Be aware that older HDDs (even some sold less than 3 years ago) were a bit thicker than those sold now. Be sure it fits the enclosure you buy.

I've seen that done last week on the news ! I can't remember what artist that was nor what song they recorded but he was high profile, I'm getting old. Did anybody see that ???

Ok, so you've found nothing and you ask for help. ... why not read our post and try what we found for you so not all of us are wasting our time ? I'm out.

If you clone patrtition to partition and there's enough space on the target for all the data on the source to fit, most cloning programs should allow you to do that. Unless I'm missing something here.

Check this link about "OEM folders".

You don't get "2 items exactly match your selections" and a "display result" link ?

If your oroginal disk does not BSOD, it means you've removed an essential component from it. I would begin with not removing "SCSI/RAID". I see you add pnp drivers for storage device. You probably need to integrate the text mode driver if that is for your system drive. + for your lan settings to work, I think you need to fill the macadress for both adapters. Good luck.

Found the wireless here on Geteway's site and it says it' for 2K, XP and Vista.

I bought a pair of Bose MediaMates about 9 years ago, they are very good. If you want to save space, I think it's the way to go; check the price of the "Companion2" in your area.

Interresting, can you give us the official label of this cd or did you make it yourself ?

You need to integrate textmode drivers for your sata controller (intel ICH7M). Check the 1st post in the 2nd sticky.

Were you expecting a yes/no answer ? Good you solved it, so if ever someone has the same problem and searches, he can find out "you fixed it yourself" without having to wait for us to point him to this thread to enlight him. My guess is that you put your drivers in your XP folder.

Install Windows on an external drive (and boot from it)? You missed 10 words prior to those you quote: "remove it from the case, place it in my desktop and install Windows on it..."

Welcome to the forum. Please check rule 12 and edit your post.

As you already know (because you say "I can make it work") you need to create and format your D: before launching install. Unless you plan to install 10 times, this is not so much of a heavy burden to be able to use that option to chose foders on an other drive. Other solution would be to launch the install from a PE with some diskpart script running before install. But I can't help you on that cause I've never tried (thought I don't think it's that complicated).

Then why did you register here and not at the WinToFlash forum ? Anyway, Welcome. Posting your error message would be a 1st clue for us to know what you're doing wrong.

Have you searched for "partition"? nLite does not have options to auto-partition/auto-format. You have to manually edit the winnt.sif before creating the iso. As for the regional settings, there must be a problem with your settings indeed, so post your last session_u.ini as well, but removing the serial.

Has it been booting normally before with the same configuration ? Similar problems could happen with badly jumpered drives but surely this is a SATA drive ? (any other IDE devices ?)

This has nothing to do with nLite. plz SEARCH, or at least read the 1st post which happens to be a step by step tutorial. At least search for the proper forum to ask your question. There is a forum called "Customizing Windows". These are forums to ask for help, not to ask for someone else to do the job. We try to answer questions, we don't spend hours making step by step tutorials or videos for people passing by. To answer your only question, you don't "place boot screen file in XP CD", it is much more complicated than that. so plz search.

If it doesn't recognize the HDD, it won't format it either. So you don't have to be scared. + What exactly do you mean by "upgraded their HD" ? If only the disk has changed but the recovery DVD was made for that machine, it wil still recognize the SATA controller, and that is what you need. No, the recovery disc is made for all (same sort of) machines. Depending on what XP flavour it is, you might have to register, but this is not a problem if testing for a few days. Also if you want to be 100% safe, as suggested by jcarle, you could get a SATA HDD from eBay for almost nothing and practice your install.

I found a nice "vertical mouse" amongst discarded items. The problem is (common on optical mice) sometimes the pointer would slowly shift by itself in a constant direction which is very annoying (and the reason it was left aside). I know a mouse is cheap but the question is... can this be solved ? Is it due to a dust somewhere inside or an imperfection in the diode or in the transparent plastics ? A heating component ? Has anyone solved this before ?

Wouldn't that be black magic ? The key used is included in the unattended part of XP install by the CD and is valid for Dell only. As Cluberti says, it is pre-activated, so yes, you can give it back, job done. It might be rechecked online by some "MS genuine" algorythme but it will not be changed (if that is what you had in mind) by any update.

Anything could fail. I don't think it's HDD nor software but it's hard to be sure at this point. If people got a clear idea you would have a lot of replies by now but this could be PSU, CPU, RAM or video card indeed.