nlite w/ 'factory default' winxp home sony vaio v505

[a_username2]

Hi!

First time here, 1st time user- sorry if I missed this somewhere in a faq.

I am working w/ a vaio v505bl laptop, win xp home.

This laptop did not come w/ a real 'winxp home' installation disc- only 2 'factory default restore' discs [Edit: Sony calls these 'Recovery Media Kit' -- http://esupport.sony.com/EN/osmig/xpclean.html].

The discs are:

1 cd - booter, looks like some kind of winxp 'safe-mode style' shell-launcher, and

1 dvd - containing lots of crap- sony software crud, etc.

I've copied those 2 'factory default restore' disks onto hard drive, into separate directories.

Both contain I386 subdirs.

Running nLite-1.4.6, upon selection of either major directory, nLite reports message:

"Make sure that the selected folder or drive contains the 'i386' or 'AMD64' directory and proper Windows installation files.

nLite is for a pre-install..."

... and refuses to let me past this selection window.

I guess neither has the set of 'proper Windows installation files [Edit: at least as far as nLite is concerned-- the discs definitely contain what is necessary to re-install windows]'? Am I going to have to go buy winxp home?

[Edit: is there a way I can take my existing windows install & use that, somehow? Like boot into safe mode, copy the \windows directory into where nLite can use it?]

Fwiw, appended is a screenshot of the i386 directory on the dvd:

Edited June 19, 2008 by a_username2