nLite image too big to burn

[Butterknife]

Hi, I'm new.

I've been using an nLited XP for a long time now, that my cousin has made for me, because I have a SATA disc that needed additional driver to be XP-installable. I got a new XP SP3, but I can't install it on a SATA disc, as it doesn't recognize it as being there, so I resorted to nLite to slipstream the driver in. In addition to that, I only added support for my keyboard layout and it reported only 0.64MB additional data. After the image was created, I was shocked to see it being 15.7GB! What happened and how to fix it???

[Ponch]

Just look what's in your folder and subfolders (\i386 and others), 15Gig of unwanted data should not be hard to spot.

Someone else reported having unsuspectedly integrated much more drivers that he thought because selecting a folder that contained them all.

[Butterknife]

Loaded it up in Alcohol and it would seem that all of the folders have been tripled or quadrupled. Pretty strange. Initially, I loaded a folder containing SATA drivers, the whole thing was only about 7MB. Seeing how it was an .exe driver without .inf files, I had to install it first and then slipstream the folder it created in Program Files, according to a how-to I found online. I think that's how my first XP was done so I'm trying to replicate the procedure.

I'll try creating a new image, perhaps targeted to a different locations, and see how big it will be then.

[johnhc]

Butterknife, one mistake some make is to not create a new (empty) folder to copy the CD contents into. NLite then takes the whole C: disk as the source. So start over, make a new folder and copy all the contents of the CD into it. It should be about 500-600 MB. Then, 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.

[Morrisvald]

Hi

I really need help on this one, I am trying to intergrate ahci (sata) drivers on windows xp professional. I am using nlite (latest version) When I load the inf driver There are 17 more inf drivers to choose from (I have added a image on the on the drivers). Which driver should I take?

(my motherboard is p7p55d pro.)

Thanks!

And what inf should I load the drivers from iaahci or iastor?