Hey guys after of all yours help..

after reading all your excellent guides..

I finaly managed to get my unattended winxp to work perfectly...

So i decided to make a DVD with more apps and more drivers..

everyhing went ok ..

i copied the already working winxp cd to my hard disk and i added only some applications and drivers..modifying offcourse the winnt.sif file and the runoceex file..

Everyhing is going fine.. till the time when 12 minutes remaning to complete setup and setup i registering components... my computer freazes and it's not moving any more to complete setup.. i tried it on several pc's the same happens... 12 minutes to complete .. registering componets (or something like that .. i think this is ..i translated it from greek.. ) and computer is not moving any more to comlete setup./.

Any suggestions Guys ?

Thnaks in Advance

I have had the same "REGISTERING COMPONENTS" problem, although my installation hung at 9 minutes left. After a week(!) of frustrations, I finally found the culprit: my $15 USB smartcard reader. When I disconnected it, everything worked like a charm.

The rule seems to be: If anything *can* interfere with your WXP install, it *will*. So disconnect everything you don't need during the install. After the install is finished, add your stuff, one item at a time.

Took me a week to learn that lesson!

I'm having the exact same issue at the 12 minute mark. I'm installing into the latest version VMWare. A slipstreamed XPSP1 cd installs fine but a slipstreamed XPSP2 cd hangs at the 12 minute mark every time.

same problem @ T-12, haven't found any solutions yet on the forum so I'll post a reaction here in the hope someone has a solution

The messages keep scrolling, and it indicates that it's reading from the CD, but no harddrive accessing.

I'm testing it in VMware, haven't tested it in real life yet, but I don't plan too untill it works over there

Edit: Nvm

as stated somewhere else: When you use the cmdhow @ /HID and there's an error in the RunOnceEx and asks for input, then it's normal it doesn't continue untill you give the input to the window.

Edited June 7, 200521 yr by OmegaII