Add Drivers to nLite

[wesireal]

I have an Acer Aspire 3660 Laptop.

Children (Grand) did something and every thing including a built in recovery system was lost. Then the abelest of the lot (11years) attempted to install XP Professional and that really did it in.

There was never a OS disk with the laptop. So I am reduced to installing a generic xp home cd provided by a friend!! It is generic, in that it is not bootable. I was then advised to use nLite to make it bootable.

While preparing nLite to make an ISO I came to the section Add Drivers I navigated to the folder Drivers where I had downloaded all the correct drivers fron Acer.( I am doing all this on my other PC ).But there

appears a problem.nLite does not even show the driver folders because it looks for inf file.Therefore I can not load the drivers.It is most important to do so because the xp home I have is very old and does not

have the ATI Chipset drver.Without it the mouse cursor freezes and cannot complete installation.

Johnhc: Thank you for the prompt reply. I am afraid I did not understand what info you wanted. At the moment I have nothing but a folder that has xp home and a folder with all the drivers(Zipped) UNzipped also did not work.

Everything else was deleted so we can start fresh. My fault.

Please help.This is driving me crazy.I am ignorant about these matters as well as not clever.

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Inside the XP working folder (after using nLite) there is a file Last Session.ini (also found in C:\Program Files\nLite\Presets). Please attach it and tell us something more about the hardware your PC has. Do not attach Last Session_u.ini

Cheers

[wesireal]

Thank you. The file is enclosed. Found in xp folder. nLite folder Presets is emkpty.

LAST SESSION.INI

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Everything seems OK; you have added the UxTheme patch, but haven't integrated a service pack, although it is selected as a task. Now please tell us what drivers you are trying to add or which model is your PC or where you download them from, so we can tell you exactly what to do with them.

Edit: since the CD is not yours, make sure you use the product key that you have, and not the one by your friend.

Cheers

Edited November 27, 2010 by Sp0iLedBrAt

[wesireal]

As mentioned earlier the Laptop is Acer Aspire 3660.

Yes I will use the correct key.

I believe SP1 is with the OS and does not need to be attached.In case that is necessary please tell me how to do it.

What else should I do?

Thank you.

[johnhc]

wesireal, I went to this ACER site and followed it down to your drivers, DLing the Chipset ones. I extracted it and found only two .inf file, CX_31993.inf and SMBUSati.inf. I would suggest you start with these two and see if you can get up and running. The others you can run after install or extract them and include the .inf file in nLite. Please remember always to start with a fresh copy of your files/folders and run nLite only once doing all your work. As Sp0iLedBrAt commented, you did not include SP3 and should. You can get it from the MS DL Center. There is also available Update Packs for all post SP3 updates. I suggest you look into one of these. Also consider using Fully Automated for your Unattended Mode. Enjoy, John.

[johnhc]

As mentioned earlier the Laptop is Acer Aspire 3660.

Yes I will use the correct key.

I believe SP1 is with the OS and does not need to be attached.In case that is necessary please tell me how to do it.

What else should I do?

Thank you.

wesireal, to include SP3, DL it and save it to a folder. Select the Service Pack Integration task, as you have, and when it comes up, point to the SP3 file in your folder. Enjoy, John.

EDIT: You don't need SP2.

Edited November 27, 2010 by johnhc

[wesireal]

Thank you both.It is late.Ishall do as advised and report back