CD Boot Install Requests Floppy Rather Than CD

[Aquiva]

Hey, so I have a CD and a DVD burned directly from nLite.

I have BIOS setting boot first from CD/DVD, then Floppy, then Hardware...

I'm set. So I go. I put my DVD or CD in. I restart.

"Press any key to boot from CD"

Windows xp setup/install loads up and requests that I ....

"Put Windows Professional Service Pack 2 CD into Drive A:\"

huh?

1. My xp and nlite burn is for Windows XP Media Center, (I have Service Pack 2 already on my computer)

2. My A:\ is a FLOPPY drive (and detachable to, plugs in by USB), my E:\ drive is for CDS

...BIOS is first CD, so why is it doing floppy instead?

...I don't even have my floppy drive plugged in, so the A:\ drive doesn't exist. How is it finding and wanting to use it?

...(I assume this doesn't matter) why is it asking for Win Pro SP2 when I am currently using Win MCE SP2?

...Why does it ask for a CD when it requests a floppy drive?

3. How do I get it to recognize my nlite cd or dvd and have it use my cd or dvd so I can finally do a clean reinstall of my system?

thanks!

[gosh]

your problem is with txtsetup.sif, very simply it's not finding the ident file, which is something on the root of the cd with a name like winip or winip.sp1.

-gosh

[Aquiva]

If I had the XP cd, I'd just use the XP cd to reinstall my XP. No duh. But I don't keep track / organize of all my CDs after years and years of having them.

For nLite I copied my i386 and cmpnent files - and it all works so far. So how can I get an identification file? Can I create a file named winip that is blank?

[matrixv]

A hu...! It likely U don't put special file of SP2 (WIN51, WIN51IP, WIN51IP.SP2) into root disk. Check it there?