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Without the whole VM thing, you can use VFD to get a virtual floppy drive and copy your files from there to anywhere you want. It's portable and even runs on a BartPE.

Maybe if you get a reg file to put them in HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Keyboard layout/Preload. (you use the codes here, like 00000409 for US and 00000809 for UK). But I'm not sur how this mixes with the combinations "Language/keyboard" once logged in.

Reinstall the (double checked) correct drivers for your hardware and OS ? Check the audio pane in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices.

If your XP doesn't see your SATA drives, then yes, you need to integrate the drivers for the controler or use the F6 key when setup starts. You can use nLite for integrating the "text mode" drivers. Try it first and come back with questions. Expect people to answer your question, not to explain the whole "how to". Also there are dedicated forums for both nLite and USB_Multiboot ("Install XP from USB").

Linking both threads to each other is not going to clear things up. nLite 1.4.9.1 is out since almost a year, would it have problems running with .net2.0 we would have noticed by now. There is obviously someting wrong with all your OSs. You can as much you want, still no one seems to even understand what you want to do. Is it "edit an nlited set of files without using nLite" ?

Check this thread, I haven't tried it myself. I've used "Xplorer2 portable" on my BartPE but it doesn't seem to run under WinPE2 .

Correct. Taking advantage of all available options takes a fair time. If you ever wanted to just change one of them for a next build, loading the "last session.ini" would show you all the choices you'd made the last time and you'd just have to click next to all, just changing the ones you wish, instead of ticking multiple boxes on multiple pages again. Note that this is only working when starting from the same original source. Also it is not like you need to use all nLite's options, keeping default settings doesn't hurt.

http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-so...y-and-download# ... SP2 or later.

Your question is quite confusing, as from what follows, you seem to be familiar with the process or at least have done it once. Or else where does the ini file come from ? Is your question "how to use nLite?"

Search for "KB973540".

+Integrating your other drivers in your cd might prove a little more work than installing them after XP, it depends on the package they're in (very easy if you do have .inf files for each), wether you want to try something and wether you might want to use that cd again in less than 2 years. As for Integrating SP3, I'd say yes.

Are you asked to locate the driver (.inf file) or do you click yes to all and let it search (...the Internet which is not there) ? Can you be more specific about "Failure" please, the complete exact message.

Checfk this page for your radeon X1200. For the rest, have you checked Toshiba's forums ?

When installing it , your previous employee agreed to use nLite for personal use only. You should accept the fact it is not for business use.

You are facing multiple problems (nLite, Sata,XP drivers, virtual system,...), and by using the USB method, you add one more problem and you want to install to 2nd partition which complicates even more. Combo drives are DVD readers and CD reader/writers. I've never heard of a DVD writer that doesn't burn cd. Maybe you just need a hint to burn the cd correctly. + Always use last version of nLite.

This is not what you want. At that point, you've already booted Windows XP. You need to find the key that brings the bios screen before that. Maybe there is an indication on the screen at startup. For Dell, I now it is F2 now but it might have been "Del" or "Esc" 7 years ago. It's even been Ctrl+Alt+Del ten years ago. From that bios screen, you will have to make certain the CD is set to boot before the hard drive (search for something like "Boot Order"). That way you will be able to start your system from your XP install cd and choose the recovery console mode. From that state, when you get that far, you can type "chkdsk c: /f /r /p" if I remember correctly.

Can you please explain how the center of the disk would be faster at seeking/reading ?

Your install fails to auto activate (what your cd normally does) because it is looking for a Dell motherboard.

For modification by nLite, have you copied your files manually to the HDD or have you let nLite get them from the CD ?

If that supposed older PC has a floppy drive like most used to have, that should be a piece of cake. But to answer what I understand is your question, no, there is no way to create a bootable Win98 from a running XP.

Kingbeezz, this is not a place to speak about wareezz download nor exchanging copyrighted material. If you don't agree... .I try to keep it funny, but this could potentially get the thread locked.

I have a cd that gives that message and it is an original. Not a hologram MS cd but a Fujitsu-Siemens branded "Product Recovery" that is in fact a plain WinXP SP1a install CD. I can't remember what happens when you choose "No", wether it refuses to integrate SP3 or it produces annoyances later, but if you reply "yes", there is no side effect to see. I've reinstalled my Acer portable with it. That one only came with a recovery image (on partition and cd). Maybe the mystery resides in the "a" from "SP1a", I don't know. I'm not "very knowledgeable", I'm just ancient.

Those are post SP2 hotfixes integrated on the CD by the OEM. Answer YES and you're ok.

Thanks for your answer. It was complete enough so apparently no one has anything to add . I'll reinstall that thing.

Can you give the exact message and what happens before that ? Any "press any key to boot from CD" ?