Creating an autobootable XP with nlite?

[Major A Payne]

Hello all. I've done a bit of searching for an answer to this on the forum but I can't find anything to that might help so I figured I would try to get a bit of expert help. Anyway, I've followed a tutorial for nlites usage but for some reason I can't get the cd burn to provide me with a auto bootable version of my XP. I am using my original XP home cd (it has sp3 already added to it) but everytime the final part of the program gets to "Processing Setup Files" it removes the main xp EXE file and the autorun file.

Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong, because I've gone through three discs so far and want to try to get this right. Any help is highly appreciated.

[johnhc]

Major A Payne, please post a screen shot of your source folder after you run nLite. In reality, these two files are not needed to boot the CD, only auto start and run an installation from it on an already running OS. My ISO contains these two files and does auto Start. Also, please tell us how you are burning your CD. You might also consider a virtual system (VMware Server, VirtualPC and VirtualBox - all free) for testing - no more CD coasters. In closing, please attach (not paste) your Last Session.ini. Make sure to always start with a fresh copy of your CD files/folders, do all your work in one nLite session and integrate only one SP. Please report when you have a solution, so others can benefit. Enjoy, John.

[g-force]

Mayor A Payne, these file depend on "Manual Install & Upgrade" and are not needed

for a clean install from this bootable CD.

[Major A Payne]

Thankyou both for the replies but g-force was right on the money. I was overlooking that particular option totally and disabling it. I know it sounds silly but having seen cd's with the setup and autorun files on them ever since I started using XP (I've always built my own pc's) I'm more comfortable with them.

With regards to the integration of SP's. I actually don't need to do this as the version of XP home I have already has XP3 added. I'm also only doing this for the XP installation and not for inclusion of any additional drivers (this might come at a later time when I get more conversant with nlite).