I'm making my first unattended Win XP (SP2) cd. But unfortunately I’m having some problems with my install. When the installation has copied all the files to the hard drive and rebooted for the install, it displays “Unable to get a product id for the computer” (direct translation from Danish so don’t know if it matches the English display). The log says “RegOpenKeyEx[system\setup\Pid] returned error 2”. My winnt.sif is as follows

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

FileSystem = *

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

OemPnPDriversPath="drivers\000_memctrl;drivers\001_gart; etc.”

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=105

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

Home_Page=http://www.dr.dk

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

I have even tried to remove the UserData section. I've also tried with a more detailed UserData where FullName, OrgName and ComputerName were included.

I would be very pleased if somebody was able to give me a solution to my problem. But please explain detailed because this is my first unattended Cd (which actually is a DVD) and I have only very limited experience in programming

And I do apologize for my English since I haven’t written or spoken any English for a very long time. I hope you’ll understand my intensions.

Notice in [userData] ProductID renamed ProductKey with SP1 CD or later otherwise use ProductID

And therefore i should rename ProductKey ProductID since I'm making an unattended Win XP SP2, from an original Win XP SP1. But why does the installation display error when the [userData] is removed from winnt.sif?

Wait you have ProductKey

Userdata usually looks like this

[userData]

ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

FullName="Thatsme"

OrgName="MyOrg"

ComputerName=54HtsTy

No if you slipping SP2 you need ProductKey

looking

Okay. I'll just keep the ProductKey

You're also missing

[unattended]

UnattendSwitch=Yes

Oh I see. I do not`hope I will be of too much trouble if I ask what the UnattendSwitch=Yes does?

Couple other things missing this is a Generic Winnt.sif that work's

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=1
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"
[Unattended]
    AutoActivate="no"
    CrashDumpSetting="0"
    DisableDynamicUpdates=Yes
    DriverSigningPolicy="Ignore"
    FileSystem=NTFS
    Hibernation=0
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=No
    Repartition=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    UnattendSwitch="yes"
[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=20
    OemSkipWelcome=1
[UserData]
    ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
    FullName="User"
    OrgName="MyOwn"
    ComputerName=*
[TapiLocation]
    Dialing=Tone
    AreaCode=xxx
[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes
[Proxy]
    Proxy_Enable=0
    Use_Same_Proxy=1
[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP
[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

Use UnattendSwitch only when you perform an unattended Setup with Winnt.exe, Winnt.sif, and the CD boot method.

Thank for letting me look at your own winnt.sif. But don't know what the new things mean. I like to leave out the FullName, OrgName and ComputerName. I don't use [TapiLocation] (have cable) and [Proxy]. What is "Hypernation"?

Maybe your product key is on the blacklist of Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

The setup will check if the product key is illegal or not, if yes, you can not install Windows XP SP2.

I do not hope that they have blacklisted my Key (if they have, they'll recieve an angry mail). It worked before and I have, as written, tried to remove the Key for winnt.sif

Thank you Max! You just saved me from becoming bald at a very low age The missing was UnattendSwitch=Yes. But one thing didn't work - the . When I started Explorer it the page was just default. What have I done wrong?