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Multimedia / Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

2 more; this one is very light and very efficient (lets you re-re-re-check a floppy before saving the image) http://www.klaus-hartnegg.de/e/software/hdcp20ae.zip (at the time, under DOS, I used the exe alone so I don't know what the other files are for) This one makes an exe for easy deployment: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/dvalot/emtcopy.htm

If the cd is bad, try reburning one (use CDRW for test ?)

it should appear on the screen. One more bet is "Esc" or F12 for boot menu. You could also try to reset the bios by removing the motherboard's battery for a minute. Does your keyboard work in Windows ? Or can you activate SafeMode menu using F8 ? (Are you sure about the keyboard connection ? What brand is the PC ? Or ~what year ?

Can't remember, I don't have it in front of me right now. But there's only one or two options screens and about 15 of them. Between the "Unattended" and the "Tweaks" sections. Something like "bypass HDD space requirement"

Report the make and model of your PC and someone could point you in the right direction.

There is an option to bypass your problem in nLite, did you tick it ?

What I meant is, in most cases on these forums (like here), security is not the matter, but rather start from a completely clean HDD (no ill effect from former install), in which case, erasing the MBR and the beginning of the first bites from the 1st partition is enough.

Isn't the idea of sysprep "unattended" ?

If for professional use, you might try SiteKiosk, but I don't know the price of it (there might be a trial version).

Use any PC running XP or Vista (actually I'm too lazy to check wether nLite runs under Win2K but I guess it does).

This actually saddens me (ONLY the several times ): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=2683&st=6 jaclaz I like that one: "Like chaos, it perpetuates itself until everyone believes it. Lots of good, usable hard drives are ruined in the process." Wiping a hard disk with the good tool takes 5 seconds. No OS ever checks further "if there ever was something on the disk" when it's told there was not. Further work is only wasting time, HD life, and ruining your own chances of recovering something if ever you wanted to. Triple whammy (however you might spell it ).

Legit or not, product keys are linked to specific editions of XP and do not automatically work with "a" distro, hence the request for this basic information which still adresses half of the questions about this sort of problem. Other welcome info is the unattended mode you are using or an attachement of your "Last session.ini".

Remove everything about partition/formating in the winnt.sif and it will act normal. Or (as this is the nLite forum) redo your cd with nLite and the unattended part will be overwritten. But you will have to reenter all other unattended parameter yourself and all other "not dealt by nLite" will be gone as well so you will have to reenter them manually before the iso creation.

...and does the key work with those same files before the modifications ?

As stated by sbolton, your partitionning tool probably did not ask you to format the partitions once created. So they have no drive letters.

Sure, and we love it. It allows Nuhi to gather statistics over nLite users and their surfing and buying habits. For instance, if you buy a big plasma online, we like to know your adress and pass by on a saturday night. Are you serious ? Can you not see were the infected file comes from ?

That's because you need to unnoob yourself. It takes time and we can't do it for you.

Any clearer description of your problem is welcome. If you have problem speaking english, at least use all the letters required in the words that you know.

I'd try one without any modification to check your starting files and your procedure are ok. Unless you've used nLite succesfully in the past.

Come on, make an effort. Everyone of your replies sound like you haven't tried anything that was written above, sometimes not even read it. -make a 2nd partition from within your running system: ~2 minutes -download VistaPE or GPartEd, burn the disc, boot, extend your partition: ~1 hour -make a slipstreamed XP (SP3) disc and reinstall: 4 to 10 hours (depending on the knowledge you need to get to achieve that).

Franckly, that would be a nightmare.

See,... your download is illegal, and it wasted your time. And ours.

Not exactly, if the OP had a "SP0" CD, he had to install SP1 first then SP3 (this is stated on MS's site), but SP2 was indeed not required. Reinstalling now is overkill IMHO. Having a 2nd partitions on your disc has many obvious advantages.

if you have a 680MB ".iso" file on your disc, sure it won't boot any computer. ISO is a 1 file image of the cd. You need to burn the iso "as image", so all the files that are in the iso file are directly visible on the cd and the cd is bootable. @ Jack65, if I read well, your iso is 40Gig (!!!), so you must have made a basic mistake with your folders.