I've been using nlite since version 0.9 and it has made my job easier. But when SATA harddisks started to show up, things got a little tricky. In some motherboards, I successfully integrated the textmode SATA/RAID driver and the installation went fine. In some, I failed miserably (problem with the windows setup unable to copy the file viamraid.sys despite it detected the hard drive). I've been digging around MSFN forum and, though there are many other having the similar problem but the solutions provided there doesn't solve my problem. So I decided to run an experiment and post my problem here hopefully someone can help. The hardware & software: - MSI K8M Neo-V (VIA K8M800 8237 chipset) motherboard - Windows Xp Home SP2 - nlite 1.3 The Experiment: 1) Using the original Windows XP Home SP2 CD * This requires pressing of F6 at the start of installation and inserting the VIA SATA RAID driver floppy disk. * The installation went FINE. 2) using nlite: xp Home SP2 + RyanVM Updatepack 2.1.9 + RyanVM WMP10 addon * This also requires pressing F6 & the floppy disk. * This also went FINE. 3) using nlite: with the result of 2) + other program addons + unattended + options + tweaks * This requires pressing F6 & the floppy disk. * Here's the problem: after formatting the HD, it tries to copy the files (viamraid.sys, etc.) from the floppy and fails. In 3), I purposely left out the driver integration and left all components untouched, so to maintain the state almost similar to that of 2) in which the beginning of the installation should behave fine. But why it doesn't work? Is there anything I've done in unattended/options/tweaks affected the setup reading the drivers from the floppy? Please help. [Main] Env = 1.3 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Target = Windows XP Home Edition SP:2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Unattended Setup Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Options [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase ClipBook Viewer Internet Games ;# Keyboards # Albanian keyboard Arabic (101) keyboard Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard Arabic (102) keyboard Armenian Eastern keyboard Armenian Western keyboard Azeri Cyrillic keyboard Azeri Latin keyboard Belarusian keyboard Belgian (Comma) keyboard Belgian (Period) keyboard Belgian French keyboard Bengali (Inscript) keyboard Bengali keyboard Bosnian keyboard Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard Bulgarian keyboard Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard Canadian French keyboard Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard Croatian keyboard Czech (QWERTY) keyboard Czech keyboard Czech Programmers keyboard Danish keyboard Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard Divehi Phonetic keyboard Divehi Typewriter keyboard Dutch keyboard Estonian keyboard Faeroese keyboard Farsi keyboard Finnish keyboard Finnish with Sami keyboard French keyboard FYRO Macedonian keyboard Gaelic keyboard Georgian keyboard German (IBM) keyboard German keyboard Greek (220) keyboard Greek (220) Latin keyboard Greek (319) keyboard Greek (319) Latin keyboard Greek keyboard Greek Latin keyboard Greek Polytonic keyboard Gujarati keyboard Hebrew keyboard Hindi Traditional keyboard Hungarian 101-key keyboard Hungarian keyboard Icelandic keyboard Irish keyboard Italian (142) keyboard Italian keyboard Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard Japanese keyboard Kannada keyboard Kazakh keyboard Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard Korean keyboard Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard Latin American keyboard Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard Latvian keyboard Lithuanian IBM keyboard Lithuanian keyboard Malayalam keyboard Maltese 47-key keyboard Maltese 48-key keyboard Maori keyboard Marathi keyboard Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard Norwegian keyboard Norwegian with Sami keyboard Polish (214) keyboard Polish (Programmers) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard Portuguese keyboard Punjabi keyboard Romanian keyboard Russian (Typewriter) keyboard Russian keyboard Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard Sami Extended Norway keyboard Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard Serbian (Latin) keyboard Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard Slovak keyboard Slovenian keyboard Spanish keyboard Spanish Variation keyboard Swedish keyboard Swedish with Sami keyboard Swiss French keyboard Swiss German keyboard Syriac keyboard Syriac Phonetic keyboard Tamil keyboard Tatar keyboard Telugu keyboard Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Kedmanee keyboard Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Pattachote keyboard Turkish F keyboard Turkish Q keyboard Ukrainian keyboard United Kingdom Extended keyboard United Kingdom keyboard United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard United States-Dvorak keyboard Urdu keyboard US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard Vietnamese keyboard ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) 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