I created an unattended install CD and have used it successfully until today. The computer I'm using, although only having hard drive and CD Rom drive connected via IDE cables, finds the CD ROM drive as drive E upon booting from boot disk. During the installation process, there is a cycle redundancy error due to looking for a file on drive D. Does anyone have a solution for this problem? I didn't think the drive letter mattered for basic Windows and hotfix installations.

Thanks,

If you boot up with a boot disk (as you said) the boot disk creates a ramdrive (it maybe does). The normal Windows bootdisks do so. After the setup starts, the Ramdrive should be present in the dialog where you choose the partition to install. if that is the case, change the disk to make it set the ramdrive to R: or you just delete the ramdrive stuff and try it again.

Because if the setup restarts, the ramdrive ain't present anymore, the Drive letters should have changed but windows is looking for the path it saved before.

Maybe thats the solution for your problem.

If you boot up with the cd check out your partitions, maybe you have to repartition somehow. I kinda doubt that, but maybe there is something wrong.

Or if the setup can't find files, but it found them before, maybe the cd or the cdrom drive is failing and due reading errors files can't be found.

Thanks for the response. I believe, after working with this problem all day, that the problem was the CD ROM drive itself. Once I restarted setup several times and forced the setup to request the CD, the computer started reading the files.

Just another one of those hair-pulling kinda days!