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So... you're not using "home edition cd with correct product key"... but a bunch of files on a recovery partition. That's your problem. Also you remove plenty and don't add anything but still end with burning a DVD, what's all that stuff ?

Yes please post a reply as I've had the same sort of problem slipstreaming SP3 (IE7 was not the problem, post installing SP3 wasn't either) but I was also using different language versions (I posted this yesterday in the nLite section). I hope I'm not aggressively hijacking the thread .

Same here. If you're going to use a cd to reinstall once or twice, is it more annoying to download updates or to ... download updates in order to remake a new cd ...that you're going to use once or twice ? But that's an other story.

This has been exposed again and again during those 2 months. It's stated on MS site as well. It's not an nLite issue. Welcome to the forum btw. Slipstreaming before install: no service pack needed. Installing SP3 on running XP: needs SP1 at least.

nLite doesn't use the winnt.sif from the source, it creates a new one. So of course changes you make are lost. You can change the file manually after process has run, just before clicking "Make Iso", but if those changes are not managed by nLite, they will never be in the file made by the process.

You need to know for yourself what you need and what you don't. Nobody is going to spend an hour posting everything you could possibly remove if this or if that. You remove what you are sure you will never need.

Hi, I just lost 10 hours trying to figure out a way to kick that problem out of my way. I guess I should free some diskspace and install Virtual thingy instead of burning 15 cdrws. Anyway, here is my problem: I have an OEM Home SP2 french source which I already used for my Acer and for a friends Fujitsu (both with stickers), changing the OEM files, I got it preactivated OK. Now my brother come with a computer he received from a Danish friend and asks me to set it up in french. No problemo, I thought. It's a Medion with an OEM Home Danish and with a .pqi recovery image. So I got all the files I need, I got the preactivated key for the danish version and the OEM files on it. Now whatever I try (using danish or french setupp.ini, mixing files, trying the sticker's or the preactivated key, whatever), integrating SP3 with nLite gives me an invalid PID error message at the end of install. Or.. I can just skip SP3 running nLite, make my cd, it is preactivated, it works. But applying SP3 later wastes a gigabyte of HDD space. I'll stick with this now as I told my brother it'd just be a few days, but I'm quite frustrated. Any idea on this one ? Is it just SP3 that checks you don't mix language files or is it something I wasn't smart enough to try ?

Dernière session_u.ini ; (don't post it on the net, it's not important for debugging) You got confused between last "session.ini" and "last session_u.ini" that contains only the unattended parameters. That's why there is something else in the "last session.ini" that you find in the other folder; it's not the same file name either. Now for your problem, you can readd the missing files to the folder and remake the iso with nLite, it might solve it.

Hi, We need more info about exactly what CD you started with and the modification you did with nLite. Attaching the Lastession.ini to your post wouls help.

Option 2 boots Windows from the 1st partition on 1st Hard disk. On most sytems, that would be like booting "normally" (tansparently) from the HDD. Unless the OS is not on the 1st partition, in which case, the stick tries to make it start from the 1st partition anyway and you crash with that HAL error. Option 1 is to launch the XP install. After the usual steps (choose partition, format, files copy), the computer reboots and defaults to option 2 to continue the install of XP by booting the 1st partition on HDD.

I moved the "programs" sub-folder from the PE folder, made the stick then readded the missing folder on the stick. That insignificant 256Meg thingy is offered a second life thanks to you.

As stated above, for "F6 like" integration, it's not the .inf you need, but the "txsetup.oem" integrated in "text mode" (nLite prompts you for that).

If you read the 1st post, you'll see why.

With Home, you need to create an admin account aside from "administrator". Normal install behaviour is to have you create it at OOBE and if it's the only one you create, autologing. Not autologing "administrator".

I agree with that, 1Ghz PIII's show up regularly for 1 euro on ebay.

Look for the "install XP from USB" forum. There is a tool that lets you copy your install folders to a stick and formats it so it's bootable. For what you want to do, make sure you expand the tool in a directory without space in the name and that you do not have nLite removing the "Manual Install and Upgrade" from the "Operating System Options".

Unattended parameters are included in the source. Maybe from previous nLite operation, but now your source is modified anyway, so if you want to restart from fresh, you got to reload a fresh source. nLite doesn't modify the winnt.sif (I think), it recreates it from scratch, so parameters that are not supported by nLite are lost if you select unattended over an already unattended source. If you're sure it's from nLite, just ignore the message. And check your typos indeed.

And what has it got to do with nLite ?

You cannot have an older version of Windows (here XP) automatically configure a dual boot for a newer version (your Vista). For that you have to install XP before Vista. If you install XP after Vista, you have to tweak the dual boot manually.

The safest and right way is to follow the manufacturer's instructions and use some common sense, like not pulling the plug during operation. (Bios update usually lasts about half a minute.) http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherb...?ProductID=2743 I this case, as for most, you have 3 files that you need to be able to launch in DOS mode, booting from whatever you can boot DOS with; floppy, a cdrom, a USB stick or a DOS booting HDD partition, as long as the files are readable once booted. The 1st (bat file) launches the flash(exe) utility that apply the 3rd (image) file to the Bios. But as stated, and especially if you are afraid to do it, "if you do not encounter problems using the current version of BIOS, it is recommended that you not flash the BIOS."

Frim your link: 1. Download the SoftPaq .EXE file to a directory on your hard drive. 2. Execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. NOTE: The files needed at the F6 stage of the operating system installation can be located at: c:\swsetup\SP38088\files So it pretty much looks like it is what you're after.

Also apart the fact your whole disk is almost full, having more than 12Gig on the C drive when "all the apps are on D:" raises some questions about what's really filling that partition.

Hum... Welcome to the forum ! B) For the partitions, can you not just ...make them instead of reinstalling the whole machine ? + For the rest of your post, it is really not clear what the difference is between what you have and what you'd want to have. Basically, if you don't use any nLite option, you end up with a "standard" installation.

That's the "Computer Type" (HAL) in Unattended part. You can stil change the HAL in the Device Manager.

Can you not plug your CRT back in and decrease the resolution and the Frequency ? (Actually I never moved any bigger monitor than a 21" and that 24" must be as heavy as a TV )