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Ain't it fine ? I have one (from 99?) and if I remember correctly, drivers written after those of XP are just for more cards, but do not change anything to the TNT2.

I guess you mean Windows XP logo, (not DFI logo), in which case, the problem (on that one) migt be software or HDD hardware related. Are all OSs on the same physical disk ? I'm now entering the pedantic discussion about MTBF. In my experience, there are parts that are bad and fail quickly and parts that are good and go far longer than 8 years, so that "no warranty that they will wotk well" is to be taken both ways, there is no more warranty (except "commercial") that a computer will work well in it's first years either. Take 100 lamps, wait for the 50th to blow, it says nothing at all about how long the remaining lamps will stay on.

What happens exactly ? Do you get any sound, a led, running fans, (no)video, nothing at all ?

Audacity doesn't need a physical loop wire to record your "output".

Easy to miss on the last screen: the "Make ISO" button. You might have clicked "Next" instead. You can relaunch nLite selecting only the last step ("bootable ISO") and it will bring you back to that last screen without changing anything to your files or to your "last sesion.ini". There you have to choose the path, name and label for your ISO that will probably work (better ) in our VMWare. 2.: "...since nLite overwrote these", there is no other option than re-overwrite the whole bunch of files and folders. Cheers.

Why change your method when it was working ? Your error is that you make a "bootable CD" with Nero instead of just burning the ISO "as image". The iso is bootable, it is not meant to be "added as file" on a bootable cd (that boots Caldera DOS) as you probably did. Check your Nero for the "burn image" menu.

Using the "Ins" key you get more choice for partition type and can choose NTFS. As stated before, you can create an NTFS partition but cannot format it (not supported by that old program).

Are you reinstalling from a "recovery partition" ? Have you retried that ?

To get it back to where it was before, restart from your original disk, then run nLite successively, loading the "Last sessions" in the same order you did before. Not the last one obviously.

Any computer will do (running XP or Vista). There is apparently a major flaw in your cd but your presets do not give any clue. Maybe the wrong HAL was selected in "computer type" (unattended section) or you need to reset something in your partitions.

VirtualBox is free, the two others have free trial versions. I think.

Did you guys use the same camera/scanner and software ? It seems really good.

What was the symptom of that crash ? Your HDD might be dying and stop behaving correctly when the 34th % are written. Do a complete format rather than a quick format. Also I don't understand why you use a Win98 AND a WinXP cd for the partitionning bit, but that is irrelevant to your problem.

It might simply be more than corrupted; dead. Can you see a generic volume in the Hardware Management ? Can you try to plug it on an other computer see if it shows any new hardware detected ?

For some yes, it's written as comment. But surely not "most".

If you have at least two programs running and Alt+Tab doesn't switch programs, I think you should check the warranty of your notebook for a keyboard replacement. If it's intermittent, be sure nothing is blocking the "Alt key", like crums or such.

Neither of them, it's "Last Session.ini" with a space, and it is indeed on your hard drive in C:\Program Files\nLite\Presets. The main question is... why are you using a key that you found in an "unattended.txt" when you says you own a legit key. Where is YOUR key that came with your "brand new XP disk" ? See if we care. You're the one with the problem. I've had a problem like that when reinstalling a computer for my brother but I had to mix languages as the original install was danish OEM. I think that was my problem (PID not matching). I never solved it and ended up installing SP3 after install. Not very elegant. Good luck.

What do you mean by "not valid" ? Is this not the andwer to your question ? Some keys that can be found on the Internet have been blacklisted.

There is no need to make the ISO if you are not going to use a CD. Read the sticky posts in the sub forum called "Install XP from USB", download "USB_Multiboot_10" and run it. If you removed the "manual install" (winnt.exe) in your nLite process, you will have to start over again.

Is the computer in a domain ? Are you connecting to an Exchange server ? Are your date and time correct ? Do they stay correct ?

Do you have any idea who installed that computer ? Or who's the owner ?

When it does not work, can you check your keyboard (hardware), for instance using alt+tab to switch programs. Obviously you'd know how to test the left shift key. Can it be that you use different profiles and that in one of them there is ony one language installed, or 2 languages but with the same keyboard layout,... or one language with 2 keyboard layouts ? Can you display the language bar to check if it really doesn't change ? Some more basics; the language for a given program is set when it starts, so for instance changing the language in Notepad will not change it in Internet Explorer if that one was opened before and you come back to it. Intermittent problems are annoying.

You ask for a copyrighted CD to be uploaded for free ? Home, Pro, "whatever", in the next post you'll say you still have your cd but lost that specific product key ?

Haha ! Hum... errr... it's not in mine anymore . I guess the option has been removed some months ago for any reason.

You can check USB_multiboot_10 from the "Install XP from USB" forum. I has a possibility of booting DOS with multiple sub choices and also booting floppy images, so directly puting the constructor's floppy image on your stick. You need XP to build the drive but you do not have to copy the XP part on it.